Talk To The Snail - Hardcover

Clarke, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593057228 ISBN 13: 9780593057223

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2006

Synopsis

Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France, only to be told that it’s complet? Attempted to say “merci beaucoup” and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? Been taken to what you’ve been assured is the perfect house deep in the countryside, only to find there’s no electricity or running water?

If the answer to any of the above is ‘oui’, Talk to the Snail is the book for you.Find out how to get served in a restaurant; learn to be exquisitely polite – and brutally rude – at the same time; discover the language of love, sex and suppositories (not necessarily in that order). It’s all here in this funny, informative, seriously useful guide on how to get what you really want from the French.

With advice on essential phrases and bons mots to cover all eventualities, and illustrated with witty real-life anecdotes, Talk to the Snail is a book that no self-respecting Francophile – or Francophobe - can afford to be without.

About this title

Review:

"Edgier than Bryson, hits harder than Mayle" (The Times)

"Done more for the Entente Cordiale than any of our politicians" (Daily Mail)

"Must have comedy-of-errors diary about being a Brit abroad" (Mirror)

"Clarke renders the flavor of life in Paris impeccably: the endless strikes, the sadistic receptionists, the crooked schemes by which the wealthy and well-connected land low-rent apartments... Clarke's eye for detail is terrific" (Washington Post)

"Call him the anti-Mayle. Stephen Clarke is acerbic, insulting, un-PC and mostly hilarious" (San Francisco Chronicle)

Book Description:

From the bestselling author of A YEAR IN THE MERDE, the only book you'll need if you want to understand what the French really think, how to get on with them and, most importantly, how to get the best out of them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0593057228
• ISBN 13: 9780593057223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272