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<p>John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the<i>Guardian</i>has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful that it may be their turn to be mercilessly sent up.</p><p>Now he turns his critical eye on the classics of the last century, offering bite-sized pastiches of everything from<i>Mrs Dalloway</i>to<i>Trainspotting</i>via<i>Lolita</i>and<i>The Great Gatsby</i><i>.</i>Those who have never quite got around to reading<i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>will be delighted to find its essence distilled into a handful of paragraphs. Those who have never really enjoyed<i>Lord of the Flies</i>will be pleased to find it hilariously parodied in an easily swallowable 982 words. And those who find all such works a little highbrow will be relieved to discover, between the covers of this book, John Crace's take on the likes of Ian Fleming, P. G. Wodehouse and the<i>Highway Code</i>.</p><p>Witty and sharp, this is essential reading both for those who genuinely love literature and for those who merely want to appear ridiculously well read.</p>

Autorenportrait

John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of the Digested Read columns. He is also author of<i>Baby Alarm: A Neurotics Guide to Fatherhood</i>,<i>Vertigo: One Football Fan's Fear of Success</i>,<i>Harry's Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp</i>,<i>Brideshead Abbreviated: the Digested Read of the Twentieth Century</i>and<i>The Digested Twenty-first Century</i>. He lives in London.

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