Queenan Country: A Reluctant Anglophile's Pilgrimage to the Mother Country - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805069801 ISBN 13: 9780805069808

Synopsis

The American author of True Believers recounts how he cast aside a stressful Fourth of July family get-together for a trip to Great Britain, during which he confronted offbeat politics and a host of eccentric characters in the nation's pubs, countryside, and cultural locales. 40,000 first printing.

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Review

"New York writer Queenan ventures into Bill Bryson territory with this amused and amusing look at Blighty, and holds his own."--David Armstrong, "San Francisco Chronicle" "The book is less a pilgrimage, more a voyage round Joe Queenan's head. . . . His extensive knowledge of popular music, his lovely reveries on books and reading, his occasionally nonchalant way with facts and his sly humor."--Allison Pearson, "The New York Times"
"Very much a travel book, but a particularly funny and interesting one." --William Georgiades, "New York Post

"New York writer Joe Queenan ventures into Bill Bryson territory with this amused and amusing look at Blighty." "--San Francisco Chronicle""" "The book is less a pilgrimage, more a voyage round Joe Queenan's head. . . . his extensive knowledge of popular music, his lovely reveries on books and reading, his occasionally nonchalant way with facts, and his sly humor."--Allison Pearson, "The New York Times" "Very much a travel book, but a particularly funny and interesting one."--William Georgiades, "New York Post"

New York writer Joe Queenan ventures into Bill Bryson territory with this amused and amusing look at Blighty. "San Francisco Chronicle"

The book is less a pilgrimage, more a voyage round Joe Queenan's head. . . . his extensive knowledge of popular music, his lovely reveries on books and reading, his occasionally nonchalant way with facts, and his sly humor. "Allison Pearson, The New York Times"

Very much a travel book, but a particularly funny and interesting one. "William Georgiades, New York Post""

"New York writer Joe Queenan ventures into Bill Bryson territory with this amused and amusing look at Blighty." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The book is less a pilgrimage, more a voyage round Joe Queenan's head. . . . his extensive knowledge of popular music, his lovely reveries on books and reading, his occasionally nonchalant way with facts, and his sly humor." --Allison Pearson, The New York Times

"Very much a travel book, but a particularly funny and interesting one." --William Georgiades, New York Post

Book Description

In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humourists seeks the answer to an eternal question: what makes the Brits tick?

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0805069801
• ISBN 13: 9780805069808
• Binding: Hardcover