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Victor Mollo's Bridge in the Menagerie is on any list of the
all-time top ten books on the game. The stories it contains,
originally published in the 1960s in Bridge Magazine and The Bridge
World, found a worldwide audience in book form. Everyone can relate
to the characters (the Hideous Hog, the Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the
Owl, and the rest), the bridge hands are brilliant, and the stories
themselves hilarious. This is the book against which all subsequent
attempts at bridge humour are measured. Bridge in the Menagerie has
been out of print for some time, and is reissued now with
illustrations by bridge cartoonist Bill Buttle.
Just about every bridge player over forty has read Victor Mollo's
Bridge in the Menagerie, a book that is on any list of the all-time
top ten on the game. Towards the end of his life, Mollo continued
to write stories about the same well-loved characters (Hideous Hog,
Rueful Rabbit, Oscar the Owl and the rest), but they appeared in
various magazines around the world, and if you weren't a
subscriber, you didn't get to read them. This is the fourth and
final collection of these lost Menagerie gems, collected for the
first time in book form. Previous titles in this series: Bridge in
the Menagerie; The Hog Takes To The Precision; Diamonds are the
Hog's Best Friend; Swings and Arrows.
Fictional bridge clubs, from Victor Mollo's Menagerie to the monks
of David Bird's St. Titus Abbey, are familiar backdrops for bridge
writers. Perhaps therefore it is surprising that no one has gone
'over the rainbow' before. It's not a surprise, though, to find
that everyone in Oz is a keen bridge player, even the Scarecrow and
the Tin Man. The Lion is as cowardly a player as you would expect,
and the witches of all flavours are deliciously wicked. The Wizard
himself, of course, is a visitor from Down Under...Some of these
stories have previously appeared in Bridge magazine, and in
Australian Bridge, but all are collected here in book form for the
first time. Bill Buttle's cartoon illustrations add to the fun.
Bill Buttle's 'Out of Hand' cartoon panels appear regularly in a
number of bridge magazines, notably the ACBL's monthly Bulletin
(the American Contract Bridge League). This is his first collection
in book form devoted solely to bridge humour.
Cartoonist Bill Buttle is well-known to readers of the American
Contract Bridge League's Bridge Bulletin for his trenchant
lampooning of bridge and bridge players. In this, his first
book-length collection, he aims his darts not only at bridge
players but golfers. This book of hilarious one-panel cartoons will
make a great holiday gift for any bridge nut or golf addict.
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