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Language English Media type Print Originally published 1980 Genre Fiction Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date September 12, 1980 Pages 149 pp. OCLC 6329291 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ISBN 0394511042 hardcover edition Similar Woody Allen books, Film books |
Side Effects is an anthology of 17 comical short essays written by Woody Allen between 1975 and 1980, all but one of which were previously published in, variously, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Kenyon Review. It includes Allen's 1978 O. Henry Award winning story, "The Kugelmass Episode".
Contents
Contents
- Remembering Needleman
- The Condemned
- By Destiny Denied
- The UFO Menace
- My Apology
- The Kugelmass Episode
- My Speech to the Graduates
- The Diet
- The Lunatic's Tale
- Reminiscences: Places and People
- Nefarious Times We Live In
- A Giant Step for Mankind
- The Shallowest Man
- The Query
- Fabrizio's: Criticism and Response
- Retribution
- Confessions of a Burglar
Some of the tales in detail
Running jokes
Throughout the book, frequent references are made to composer Igor Stravinsky. In addition, numerous gags are made with an implication that people bear an innate knowledge of Dutch language. Love interests of characters are compared to a grotesque, golem-like Aunt Rifka in two separate stories.
References
Side Effects (Allen book) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA