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Holy Tango of Literature
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Francis Heaney. |
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Emmis Books |
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paperback
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| ISBN |
9781578601592 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
119/2004 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
59245 |
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| Description |
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The sincerest form of flattery? Puzzle author, lyricist, and mad anagrammist Francis Heaney scrambles this Anthology into a Holy Tango of literary greats, simultaneously honoring and skewering the likes of Tennyson, Blake, and Shakespeare as he hoists them with their own petards. Each author's name is anagrammed to create a title—Maya Angelou is transformed into "Yoga Alumnae," Samuel Beckett lends us "Bake Me Cutlets," Sylvia Plath becomes "All His Pay TV," and Ogden Nash renders "Hen Gonads"—and then Heaney takes the title and runs with it, producing a cheeky, fiendishly clever parody in that author’s style. George and Martha, for example, will never be the same after they're recast in Edward Albee's "A Wee Bladder." Richard Thompson provides visual caricatures, several of which are reproduced as a sheet of commemorative stamps. "Francis Heaney's exquisite writing skills and considerable wit are utterly squandered in this trivial literary pastiche—which is exactly why I loved it so much."—Will Shortz
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