{"product_id":"cooking-with-fernet-branca-9781933372013","title":"Cooking with Fernet Branca","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCooking with Fernet Branca\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hamilton-Paterson, James. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781933372013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A playful book, full of fun and games. There is so much pleasure to be had from Hamilton-Patersons delight in language and wicked way with unreliable narrators. . . . The books effect is achieved almost entirely through the comic magnetism of a single character.\"-The Times Literary Supplement\n\"A skillful, highly original writer. . . . The elegant language, witty asides and vivid observations are memorable.\"-The Literary Review\n\"Im bowled over by the sheer imaginative brilliance of the man.\"-Barry Humphries\n\"I love his elegant and intensely evocative style: strangeness lifts off his pages like a rare perfume.\"-J.G. Ballard\n\"A work of comic genius.\"-The Independent\n\"A wonderfully rich alloy of sub-Wildean witticisms and nonsense, Cooking with Fernet Branca had me laughing out loud and uproariously.\"-Ian Thomson, Sunday Telegraph\nGerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he wiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions-including ice cream made with garlic and the bitter, herb-based liqueur of the books title. Geralds idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former soviet republic. A series of hilarious misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity.\nJames Hamilton-Patersons first novel, Gerontius, won the Whitbread Award. He is an acclaimed author of nonfiction books, including Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down, and Playing with Water. He currently lives in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789861281845,"sku":"ByrdShop_193337201X","price":23.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781933372013_82424ed8-324f-406d-81f8-b323b2c4361c.jpg?v=1784765656","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cooking-with-fernet-branca-9781933372013","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}