Mere Anarchy (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
For the first time ever, hear Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy in the author’s own distinctive and hilarious voice. Here, in his first short-story collection since his three classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Allen has managed to write a book that answers the most profound questions of human existence.
In 18 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, Allen 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."
Woody Allen’s short story collections Mere Anarchy, Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects are available separately or together as part of The Woody Allen Collection.
Customer Reviews
Mere Anarchy
To have a new collection of humorous stories by Woody Allen is a fantastic surprise. I remember getting Without Feathers and the other earlier collections when they came out. There are always guarranteed belly laughs in every book. The thing that always makes Woody's humour so irresistable is the surreal and often unpredictable use of language, the way he joyously and irreverently attacks every po-faced human institution and authority in general. Writers with Woody's wit and intelligence are needed more than ever in these difficult times, as they allow us to laugh at the world, at it's pomopsity and shallowness, and also to revel in the great homourist's singular point of view, one that has enriched cinema and literature in equal measure.