John Crace, creator of the Guardian's 'Digested Read' column, hilariously summarises the great - and not so great - classics of modern literature
John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer and author of the 'Digested Read' columns. He is the author of I Never Promised you a Rose Garden- A short guide to modern politics, the coalition and the general election and also Baby Alarm- A Neurotic's Guide to Fatherhood, Vertigo- One Football Fan's Fear of Success , Harry's Games- Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp, Brideshead Abbreviated- the Digested Read of the Twentieth Century and The Digested Twenty-first Century. He lives in London.
A swift kick up the backside to some of modern literature's most
iconic works. Accurate, merciless and very, very funny
*Sarah Waters*
I've read all these books at least twice - and now I've read John
Crace's digested versions I wonder why I bothered
*Will Self*
A genius and a madman. The meanest, funniest parodist alive
*Joanna Briscoe*
For the last 10 years [Crace's] 'Digested Reads' have been reason
enough to buy the Guardian. Taking a well-known novel, he gives a
brief distillation of the plot while capturing - often perfectly -
the tone of its author. At the same time, he jabs a sharpened elbow
into their pomposities and limitations
*Spectator*
Beautifully observed and poisonously cruel ... laugh-out-loud
funny
*The Lady*
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