Cooking with Fernet Branca - by James Hamilton-Paterson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie whose idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b> <p/>Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles 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 known as Fernet Branca. But Gerald's idyll is about to be shattered by the arrival of Marta, on the run from a crime-riddled former Soviet republic, as a series of misunderstandings brings this odd couple into ever closer and more disastrous proximity . . . <p/>"Provokes the sort of indecorous involuntary laughter that has more in common with sneezing than chuckling. Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."--<i>The New York Times</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Praise for <b><i>Cooking with Fernet Branca</i></b> <p>"I've never laughed so hard. Giving good-natured belly aching laughter is a real gift. Thank you James Hamilton-Paterson." --Chelsea Clinton, <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <p>". . . a bagatelle of a book, a sex romp with recipes, a weekend getaway for the mind." --Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i> <p>"The fun is in Hamilton-Paterson's offhand observations and delicate touch in handling his two unreliable misfits as they find each other--and there's lots of it." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p>"Though Cooking with Femet Branca</i> sounds like the title of an offbeat cookbook, it is, in fact, a devilishly funny novel, complete with stomach-turning recipes." --Gastronimica</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>James Hamilton-Patterson</b> lives and works in Italy. He is the author of several novels, including <i>Loving Monsters</i> and <i>Gerontius</i>, winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel Award in 1989, a collection of essays dedicated to the lost grandeur of the sea entitled Seven-Tenths, and several non-fiction books including <i>America's Boy</i>, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. He is also the author of two books of poetry and a regular contributor to <i>Granta</i>.
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