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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20021221
Author:Review by Allan Massie

The Malcontents, editied by Joe Queenan (Running Press 20.00)

YOU are offered "the best bitter, cynical and satirical writing in the world" - just the thing for Christmas, you might think. It's certainly a bulky book and it ranges from Aristophanes to Flann O'Brien (Brian Nolan). There are only 19 authors included, so you get a good chunk of each, which is, or should be, an attraction. This is not one of those itsy-bitsy anthologies.

It must have looked a good idea, though one might have thought someone at the publisher's would have raised an eyebrow and said, "Hold on - is there a market for ...

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