You Can't Be Too Careful |
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| Author:
| Pryce-Jones, David |
| Illustrator:
| Le-Tan, Pierre |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56305-156-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1992 |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $4.95 |
Book Description:
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A heavy drinker decides to cut down his alcohol intake-and dies of a heart attack caused by alcohol withdrawl. Then there's the murderer who was accidentally electrocuted sitting on his prison cell's steel toilet--just after escaping the electric chair on appeal. You can't be too careful, not in a universe that began with a random Big Bang and whose only certainty is accident. A collection of cautionary tales gathered for years by David Pryce-Jones and illustrated with...
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A heavy drinker decides to cut down his alcohol intake-and dies of a heart attack caused by alcohol withdrawl. Then there's the murderer who was accidentally electrocuted sitting on his prison cell's steel toilet--just after escaping the electric chair on appeal. You can't be too careful, not in a universe that began with a random Big Bang and whose only certainty is accident.
A collection of cautionary tales gathered for years by David Pryce-Jones and illustrated with characteristic wit and precision by Pierre Le-Tan, these are succinct items whose very matter-of-factness seems to reinforce the utterly bewildering nature of life and death, the unlikely, improbable, unexpected way in which lives are swallowed up-this is the human comedy as one-liners, each with a wondrous and terrifying grain of truth about our existence.