Selfish Whining Monkeys: How We Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy - Softcover

Liddle, Rod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007351291 ISBN 13: 9780007351299

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS, 2015

Synopsis

With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.

‘One of Britain’s funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren’t so offensive you’d almost call him a national treasure’ Mail on Sunday

‘I, and my generation, seem feckless and irresponsible, endlessly selfish, whining, avaricious, self-deluding, self-obsessed, spoiled and corrupt and ill.’

What is it that has transformed the British who in living memory were admired for their unassuming, stiff-upper-lipped capacity for `muddling through' into the feckless,
obese, self-deluding, avaricious and self-obsessed whingers we have become? Savagely funny and relentlessly contrary, yet with a poignant sense of all that we have lost, Rod Liddle mercilessly exposes the absurdity, cant and humbuggery of the way we live now.

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Selfish Whining Monkeys

Review:

‘Liddle lured me in with his riotously entertaining take on everything from attitudes towards obesity to what he calls our "respec" culture’ Independent

‘A magnificent torrent of analysis and abuse – 90 per cent brilliant, 10 per cent bonkers ... A flaming, bloodthirsty romp, scything through the clichés and lazy thinking of an effete liberal establishment’ Times Higher Education Supplement

‘Filled with his trademark dry and self-hating wit, I would recommend even Rod-sceptics read his book’ New Statesman

About this edition

• Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0007351291
• ISBN 13: 9780007351299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256