{"product_id":"9781101218266","title":"The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels","description":"Lynne 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWith One Lousy Free Packet of Seed\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTennyson's Gift\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Loco\u003c\/i\u003e, Truss turns a fiendishly clever eye to the literary world. \u003ci\u003eTennyson's Gift\u003c\/i\u003e is 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). \u003ci\u003eGoing Loco\u003c\/i\u003e features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelgänger in gothic fiction, amidst the chaos of her domestic life, including paranoia that her cleaning lady is taking over her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Cat Laugh\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA feast of wit, \u003ci\u003eThe Lynne Truss Treasury\u003c\/i\u003e will delight fans of \u003ci\u003eEats, Shoots\u0026amp;Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106320040176,"sku":"9781101218266","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101218266_p0.jpg?v=1763687036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101218266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}