Crazy Quilt: Remarkable Comic Confusions Including Sinister Dishes and Weird Arrangements High Life Bureaucracy Gone Mad Antilogies and Other Threats to Public - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060174013 ISBN 13: 9780060174019

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

The author of Most Remarkable Occurrences gathers witty commentaries and anecdotes on such subjects as travel, high life, food, bureaucracy, manners, business, and language. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Publisher:

John Train's "remarkable" books have been described by the New York Times as "hilarious masterpieces" and by the London Times as "amazingly rich." They make perfect gifts. Crazy Quilt is a new collection of outrageous and comic imbroglios on such subjects as travel, the high life, bureaucracy and language.

A Turkish restaurant proposes: Brain Salad and Virgin Lips. A jumbo jet is forced to turn back when pigs in the hold fart so exuberantly that they set off the gas alarm. Princess Anne and Capt. Mark Phillips receive a weird collection of wedding presents. In the business directory, Train lists Cheatham and Steele, Bankers (Oregon); Dr. Dotti, Psychiatrist (Rome, Italy); and Argue & Phibbs, Solicitors (Ireland). The Financial Times reports a discussion between Australian business partners that turned ugly when one man has his nose bitten off after sinking his teeth into the other's thumb.

About the Author:

John Train founded Train, Smith Investment Counsel and is chairman of Montrose Advisors, both of New York. Hisbestselling books on investing include The Craft of Investing, The Money Masters, The New Money Masters, and The Midas Touch. He has written several hundred columns for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, Harvard Magazine, The Financial Times, and other publications. He is a part-time director of two independent government agencies reporting directly to Congress and of several emerging market mutual funds. He lives in New York, spends summers in Maine, and travels frequently to Europe, Asia, and South America.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060174013
• ISBN 13: 9780060174019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Train John
• Illustrator: Le-Tan Pierre