Mere Anarchy

Mere Anarchy

Here, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics <i>Getting Even</i>, <i>Without Feathers</i>, and <i>Side Effects</i>, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place under any short table leg to prevent wobbling.<br><br>In hysterical 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, 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.”<br><br><b><u>Praise for <i>Mere Anarchy</i></u></b>:<br><br>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>“The stories in<i> </i>Mere Anarchy deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start.”<br>–Janet Maslin,<i> The New York Times</i><br><br>“Uproarious . . . In each story the ornate and the vulgate slam together and make it rain polysyllabic absurdity.”<br><i>–The Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>“Nostalgically enjoyable . . . The stories in <i>Mere Anarchy </i>deliver the same joys and foibles that have been with its author from the start.”<br><i>–The New York Times</i><br><br>“Brilliant neurotica . . . unfailingly entertaining . . . [an] obsessive and seriously funny book.”<br><i>–Los Angeles Times Book Review </i><br><br>“Like the Carnegie’s one-pound sandwiches, Allen’s literary slapstick is . . . comedy on wry.”<br><i>–USA Today</i>