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From the beginning of the world, when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex and worker ants, to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, "A History" whips through our tortuous past with the deftness of a surgeon's scalpel. Jonah confronts a ship of Norwegian whalers; a medieval pilgrim points out the London Eye to his bored son on their way to Canterbury; Little Red Riding Hood gets drunk on cherry brandy with the wolf, and Bob Dylan loses his shadow. Death and destruction, cruelty to animals, boredom, overpopulation: enough is enough. A crowd gathers at the Vatican to protest against mortality, only to be distracted by the latest football scores ...A history unlike any other - at once sinister, alarming and breathlessly funny.

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'Humour, parody and games with history are just some of its ingredients.' El Mundo

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    A Paperback / softback by Jesus Del Campo

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      Publisher: Saqi Books
      Publication Date: 13/06/2008
      ISBN13: 9781846590498, 978-1846590498
      ISBN10: 1846590493

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      From the beginning of the world, when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex and worker ants, to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, "A History" whips through our tortuous past with the deftness of a surgeon's scalpel. Jonah confronts a ship of Norwegian whalers; a medieval pilgrim points out the London Eye to his bored son on their way to Canterbury; Little Red Riding Hood gets drunk on cherry brandy with the wolf, and Bob Dylan loses his shadow. Death and destruction, cruelty to animals, boredom, overpopulation: enough is enough. A crowd gathers at the Vatican to protest against mortality, only to be distracted by the latest football scores ...A history unlike any other - at once sinister, alarming and breathlessly funny.

      Trade Review
      'Humour, parody and games with history are just some of its ingredients.' El Mundo

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