The Song of Lunch
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The Song of Lunch

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The Song of Lunch

About this book

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human sympathy.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571274468
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. He leaves a message, a yellow sticky
  5. It’s a district of literary ghosts
  6. At fifty, he favours a younger man’s
  7. The restaurant
  8. Lunch being a game with few rules
  9. And that’s where Dylan Thomas
  10. Same tricolore paintwork
  11. He has his hand on the door-handle
  12. Which he turns, noticing
  13. First disappointing thing:
  14. He is noticed but not recognised
  15. Menu, thank you.
  16. Old time’s sake
  17. We said we wouldn’t look back.
  18. In twilight himself
  19. Fwop!
  20. Hello?
  21. So: the human paradox:
  22. Have some wine, he adds
  23. And they drink.
  24. It’s almost all pizzas
  25. Across the table
  26. So. Who’s to start?
  27. Signora signore.
  28. What say we start again?
  29. Business as usual, then.
  30. Flyaway thought.
  31. He is startled from this reckless
  32. Oh yes, he’s rotten with jealousy.
  33. Once more she is distracted
  34. From that thought idly
  35. His absentee mind
  36. According to established rites,
  37. First mouthfuls are discussed
  38. He has killed a bottle
  39. With the blade of her fork
  40. But isn’t it his business
  41. Caught a fish and let it go
  42. Figure of folly and pathos:
  43. My god. You’re right. I’m sorry.
  44. He glooms at his glass.
  45. Ha! That’s one thing that hasn’t improved.
  46. No. Blow-all. Not a squeak.
  47. That’s a great shame.
  48. So you loathed it.
  49. No swaps this time
  50. This is ground control. Can you hear me?
  51. Just what he doesn’t want:
  52. Thank you, nurse, the agony
  53. Surprise idea:
  54. Penny?
  55. Tippling, however
  56. I appear to have lost my appetite as well.
  57. Or should I say the King of Prose?
  58. Un grappino. Sì, signore.
  59. Where are you this time?
  60. For which we need to go back to your poems.
  61. You’re going to have to repeat that
  62. The big noisy boys are getting up to leave
  63. It is while he is standing
  64. He is woken up by somebody
  65. Less than an hour has passed
  66. Look: they’ve looked after his shoulder-bag.
  67. As he turns to go
  68. About the Author
  69. By the Same Author
  70. Copyright

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