{"product_id":"the-lynne-truss-treasury","title":"The Lynne Truss Treasury","description":"\u003cp\u003eLynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her British audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist and columnist. Her previous works are now available stateside in one volume, complete with a new preface. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed, a raucous comedy of errors, follows the exploits of Osborne Lonsdale, who writes a weekly column called \"Me and My Shed\" for a floundering gardening magazine. When the publication is taken over by a gung-ho management team, Lonsdale must learn to cope with his new coworkers. In Tennyson's Giftand Going Loco, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. Tennyson's Giftis an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes dodgy Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll). Going Locofeatures a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelg¤nger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life. Making the Cat Laughis a riotous collection of columns about single life. Truss comments on dating, secondhand smoking, shopping, holidays, and people who ask, \"How's the novel going?\" All the while, she continues an eighteen-year quest to make her cat laugh. Reportedly, the feline remains unimpressed. A feast of wit, The Lynne Truss Treasurywill delight fans of Eats, Shoots \u0026amp; Leaves. Praise for Lynne Truss and her work:. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed. \"Lynne Truss has written a perfect comic novel at the first attempt... a witty, ingenious romp.\" -Daily Telegraph. \"This book will become a perennial comic delight... this Truss must never be stopped.\" -Sue Limb \"Sex, violence, murder and psychoanalysis lurk in the garden shed - a breezy, rude, pleasurable alternative to cutting the grass.\" -Obeserver. Making the Cat Laugh  \"A small masterpiece of comedy...with abundant close observation, the familiar is made fresh...A continual hoot.\" -The Times. \"A truly inventive comic writer ... You should not attempt to read Making the Cat Laughwhile travelling on public transport\" -The Irish Times. \"[Lynne Truss is] a social humorist of sharp insight and startling candour.\" -Scotland on Sunday. Tennyson's Gift  \"A comic novel of subtle distinction ... richly entertaining and at times very moving.\" -The Times. \"The perfect summer book. No deck-chair will be complete without it.\" -The Independent. \"Terrific...Tennyson's Giftis witty, surprising, oddly compassionate and hugely assured.\" -The Sunday Times. Going Loco  \"Truss lets her imagination explode in what can only be described as a riddle devised while coming down of hallucinogens.\" -Time Out. \"A classic comic novel, unashamed, exuberant, fiendishly clever, and a joy to read.\" -The Daily Telegraph. \"Going Locois wonderfully underplayed, unpredictable and unexpectedly sinister.\" -Sunday Express\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Truss, Lynne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986036650269,"sku":"9781592401369","price":2.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/3326\/4925\/products\/2398641356.jpg?v=1684547976","url":"https:\/\/shopabilities.ca\/products\/the-lynne-truss-treasury","provider":"Shop-Abilities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}