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Pure drivel

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'It's off-the-wall, it's sharp ...he drops bizarre words, confetti-like, all over the place' Mirror Who else but Steve Martin could combine irrefutable evidence that Mars is populated by kittens with a treatise on sledgehammers?

In this brilliantly witty collection of pieces Steve Martin takes a subversive glimpse at the world and a sideways swipe at the conventional.

From memory tips for the over-fifties to his insightful exposition of 'Wittgenstein's Banana', never has 'pure drivel' been so entertaining.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753813955 / 9780753813959
Paperback / softback
04/09/2003
United Kingdom
English
viii, 131 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: U.S.: Hyperion, 1998; London: Viking, 1999.
Steve Martin's fame goes before him - he is already internationally recognised as one of the greatest of the modern comic actors Pure Drivel and Shopgirl are both New York Times bestsellers Published to coincide with new hardback, The Pleasure of My Company Steve Martin has received Emmys for his television writing and two Grammys for comedy albums 'Martin is a gorgeous writer capable of being at once melancholy and tart, achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic. He is a master at revealing the surreal poetry in pure drivel' Elle
Steve Martin's fame goes before him - he is already internationally recognised as one of the greatest of the modern comic actors Pure Drivel and Shopgirl are both New York Times bestsellers Published to coincide with new hardback, The Pleasure of My Company Steve Martin has received Emmys for his television writing and two Grammys for comedy albums 'Martin is a gorgeous writer capable of being at once melancholy and tart, achingly innocent and astonishingly ironic. He is a master at revealing the surreal poetry in pure drivel' Elle 2ABM American English, WH Humour