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Essential reading for adults of all ages ... the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC (Observer)One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart ... It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness (Libby Purves The Times)Hillary and I have been enjoying it ... it's hilarious (Bill Clinton)A nightmarish trifle ... modern tales for our life and times (Financial Times)The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) ... collection of bedtime stories (Daily Telegraph)Garner rewrites fairy tales ... into culturally sensitive stories, with all prejudices expunged (Daily Mail)Traditional tales carefully re-written to express no opinion at all (Sunday Times)Once upon a time there was a man who thought Little Red Riding Hood was a vertically-challenged but resolute young feminist ... So begins the latest version of the ancient fairy tale, brought up to date for the politically-correct Nineties (Daily Express)Extremely funny ... After one finishes this collection, 'happily ever after' will never seem quite the same (Publishers Weekly)Finn Garner isn't a mere writer, he's a virtuoso, a necromancer, a master of the tour de force - a Hans Nonsectarian Andersen for our very own time ... On every page there is a delight (Washington Post) Biografía del autor James Finn Garner was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. He performed comedy in Chicago nightclubs for a number of years and is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Once Upon A More Enlightened Time and Politically Correct Holiday Stories. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
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- ISBN13 9781788165136
- ISBN10 1788165136
- Colección GARDNERS
- Año de Edición 2020
- Idioma Inglés
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: 25th Anniversary Edition with a new story: Pinocchio
- James Finn Garner
- Editorial PROFILE
- ISBN 9781788165136
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