Pre-Owned As One Mad With Wine and Other Similes (Paperback) 0810394014 9780810394018

A good simile is like a good picture it's worth a thousand words. Now you can browse through more than 8,000 similes coined by nearly 2,000 sources ranging from Arabian Nights and the Bible to popular television shows and computer bulletin boards. A collection of striking phrases that's as "rare as peacocks' teeth," ..As One Mad With Wine includes: Colorful comparison phrases that are "plentiful as blackberries" (Shakespeare), "useful as a Swiss army knife" (anonymous), and "bright as a blade of sunlight" (Alice Walker). Thousands of "fresh-as-a-rain-washed rose" similes from contemporary writers such as John Updike, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor. More than 500 thematic categories, from Rage to Age, Sex to Seascapes, Insults to Honesty-so you can quickly and easily find a fitting phrase. An author index that lets you look up your favorite writers-and scan their similes, category by category: Tolstoy on Grief, Faulkner on Gossip, Katherine Mansfield on Silence, Peter De Vries on Eating and Drinking ...As One Mad With Wine offers inspiration for the writer and speaker . . . help for the quotation seeker . . . and hours of word fun for the browser. In fact, browsing through these scintillating "sound bites" is like feasting at a smorgasbord-there's something for every taste!