In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at
the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe
in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts a
comic price in stories by P. G. Wodehouse and Kingsley Amis;
Charles Jackson and Jean Rhys chronicle liquor-soaked epiphanies;
while John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov and Robert Coover set their
characters afloat on surreal, soul-revealing adventures. Here, too,
are well-lubricated tales by Dickens, Twain, Beckett, Colette,
Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Doris Lessing, Frank O'Connor,
Penelope Lively, and many more. The settings include hotels and
restaurants, a wine cellar in Italy, a cafe in Paris, a bar in
Dublin, a New York nightclub, Jazz Age speakeasies, suburban lawn
parties and the occasional gaol cell, and are peopled by lovers and
loners, barmen and chorus girls, youths taking their first sips and
experienced tipplers nursing hangovers. Whether living it up or
drowning their sorrows, the vividly drawn characters in these
sparkling pages will leave you shaken and stirred.
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