Tinkering

The Complete Book of John Clarke

John Clarke

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Text Publishing Company
03 December 2018

Fiction & Literature; Humour collections & anthologies

This book tells the story of John Clarke's writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Karenina in forty-three words, and the moving essays he wrote after the deaths of his parents.

Tinkering is full of surprises, and includes all kinds of puzzles and propositions. Each one has different rules but together they reveal the different facets of John Clarke's comic genius.

In these pages you will find Fred Dagg dispensing advice on everything from dentistry to dreaming, the complete history of the lost sport of farnakeling, the famous 'Quiz Answers', and 'Saint Paul's Letter to the Electorates' - a brilliant account of the Rudd-Gillard years that was first inscribed onto stone tablets. Tinkering also includes previously unpublished material including the 'Doorstop Poems', and the 'Letters from the School' suggesting what a serious matter birdwatching was for John Clarke.

By: John Clarke
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 375g
ISBN: 9781925773255
ISBN 10: 1925773256
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 December 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke

`Tinkering is packed with puzzles and propositions, with tea-fuelled musings on everything from plumbing to Paul Holmes. A gem.' * North & South NZ * `This book comes with some magnificent pictures of Clarke's beloved birds and they seem to have represented the magic of the reality of the world to him. There is plenty of that magic in this book and everyone who liked John Clarke should buy it and find in it what will soothe their spirit. It will be there.' -- Australian `The late John Clarke, aka Fred Dagg, really was a satirical one-off ... Tinkering is packed with puzzles and propositions, with tea-fuelled musings on everything from plumbing to Paul Holmes. A gem.' -- North & South `...Assessment of his The Games co-writer Ross Stevenson that Clarke was the great satirist in the English language is probably pretty close to the mark.' * Otago Daily Times *