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A Sidecar Named Desire audiobook

  • By: Greg Clarke
  • Narrator: Jonathan Cowley
  • Category: History, Social History
  • Length: 4 hours 2 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: November 13, 2018
  • Language: English
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A Sidecar Named Desire Audiobook Summary

A rollicking history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen’s beer brewing to James Joyce’s passion for Guinness to E.B. White’s cure for writers’ block–a dry martini–by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp.

“Civilization begins with distillation.”–William Faulkner

“Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.”–Walker Percy

“God has a brown voice, full and soft as beer.”–Anne Sexton

Throughout history, there has been no greater catalyst for creativity among writers–so they claim–than a good, stiff drink. From Aristophanes’ attraction to wine, to Dostoevsky’s breakfast of grain vodka and brown bread, to Joan Didion’s fondness for gin, stories abound of how booze has fueled and inspired our literary icons.

In this volume, cartoonist Greg Clarke and comics anthologist Monte Beauchamp take us on an unforgettable literary bar crawl. A Sidecar Named Desire is packed with historical factoids, anecdotes, booze trivia, and fascinating detours into the lives of our most storied literary personalities–along with literary-themed cocktail recipes such as Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon and Philip Larkin’s Gin and Tonic set to verse.

For the literary-minded drinker–whether wine, gin, vodka, beer, whiskey, or tequila is your elixir of choice–A Sidecar Named Desire will whet your appetite. Bottoms up!

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A Sidecar Named Desire Audiobook Narrator

Jonathan Cowley is the narrator of A Sidecar Named Desire audiobook that was written by Greg Clarke

GREG CLARKE’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, The Atlantic, Blab!, and Mother Jones. Books that have featured Greg’s illustrations include: How to Raise Mom and Dad (Dutton), Golf Rules Illustrated (Callaway Editions), My Fine Feathered Friend (FSF), Enchanted Night (Random House), and Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Change the World (Simon & Schuster). Clarke is the recipient of three silver medals from the New York Society of Illustrators. He lives on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and some of his best (and worst) ideas have occurred while sipping an IPA or a dry gin martini.

About the Author(s) of A Sidecar Named Desire

Greg Clarke is the author of A Sidecar Named Desire

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Narrator Jonathan Cowley
Length 4 hours 2 minutes
Author Greg Clarke
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date November 13, 2018
ISBN 9780062865243

Subjects

The publisher of the A Sidecar Named Desire is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is History, Social History

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The publisher of the A Sidecar Named Desire is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062865243.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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