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Mere Anarchy

By Woody Allen

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| Hardcover | 9781400066414

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“I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.”–Woody Allen

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to writeContinue

“I am greatly relieved that the universe is finally explainable. I was beginning to think it was me.”–Woody Allen

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling.

“I awoke Friday, and because the universe is expanding it took me longer than usual to find my robe,” he explains in a piece on physics called “Strung Out.” In other flights of inspirational sanity we are introduced to a cast of characters only Allen could imagine: Jasper Nutmeat, Flanders Mealworm, and the independent film mogul E. Coli Biggs, just to name a few. Whether he is writing about art, sex, food, or crime (“Pugh has been a policeman as far back as he can remember. His father was a notorious bank robber, and the only way Pugh could get to spend time with him was to apprehend him”) he is explosively funny.

In “This Nib for Hire,” a Hollywood bigwig comes across an author’s book in a little country store and describes it in a way that aptly captures this magnificent volume: “Actually,” the producer says, “I’d never seen a book remaindered in the kindling section before.”

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  • Will Mr Pooter please stand up?

    Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen Ebury Press £12.99, pp163 As a film-maker, Woody Allen just about hangs on to his status as the arch-comic spirit of his age, despite a welter of poor films. It would be as easy to programme a week of his clunkers as one o ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Pure Genius

    "The quest for an ideal body obsessed the Athenians, in a lost play by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra breaks her vow never to snack between meals and tears out her eyes when she realizes she no longer fits into her bathing suit"
    (Thus Ate Zarathustra)

    Woody Allen at his best. This book is pure g ... (continue)

    "The quest for an ideal body obsessed the Athenians, in a lost play by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra breaks her vow never to snack between meals and tears out her eyes when she realizes she no longer fits into her bathing suit"
    (Thus Ate Zarathustra)

    Woody Allen at his best. This book is pure genius. Seriously, don't miss it.

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