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Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo

ISBN 
9781787460140
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R135.00
Published 
January 2018
About the book: 
 
'Wodehouse is a tonic' - New Yorker. 
 
A Wodehouse pick-me-up that'll lift your spirits, whatever your mood.
 
‘Cheaper and more effective than Valium’.*
 
Offers ‘relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour’.*
 
‘Read when you’re well and when you’re poorly; when you’re travelling, and when you’re not; when you’re feeling clever, and when you’re feeling utterly dim.’*
 
Whatever your mood, P. G. Wodehouse, widely acknowledged to be ‘the best English comic novelist of the century’*, is guaranteed to lift your spirits.   
 
Why? Because ‘Mr Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.’*
 
How? ‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.’*
 
*Olivia Williams *Caitlin Moran *Lynne Truss *Sebastian Faulks *Evelyn Waugh *Stephen Fry
 
In the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family: there’s Cyril, the timid interior designer, who finds himself drunkenly playing 'this little piggy' with his beloved's formidable and angry mother's toes - how can that possibly end well?! And then there's Wilfred, who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance… Add one of the best Jeeves and Wooster stories and you’ve got a medley of Wodehouse delights in which lunacy and comic exuberance reign supreme.
 
Contents:
- Mulliner’s Buck-u-uppo 
- The Spot of Art
- Strychnine in the Soup
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