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A London Sunday Times columnist presents a collection of politically incorrect essays critiquing what the author believes are cultural eccentricities behind British society's calm and refined surface, in a whimsical tribute that celebrates everything from drinking traditions to national war memorials. By the author of A.A. Gill Is Away. 15,000 first printing.
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'In a series of fascinating essays, Gill reveals there is a swell of suppressed anger in the English . . . Much of it is extremely funny, the reader is left with the queasy question: what if he is right?' (SUNDAY TIMES)
'An entertaining polemic . . . A thought-provoking, some would say overdue, book that challenges the English self-image of genteel reserve' (CHOICE)
'His prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee and, just when you least expect it, lands a deft and lethal blow beneath the belt' (Terence Blacker SUNDAY TIMES)
'The author is on typically quick-witted form' (Jim Blackburn WANDERLUST)
'It annoys, arouses feelings and forces one to confront received opinions. Whether one sides with it or not, one can admire the zest of the writing and applaud its splendid lack of political correctness' (Beryl Bainbridge MAIL ON SUNDAY)
'He writes beautifully. His chapter on war memorials should be a set text, his defence of political correctness is bold and true, and he really nails the philosophy of the queue' (Peter Watts TIME OUT)
'He's as much sentimentalist as satirist - listen to him, some time, eulogising stalking in Scotland - and, as everyone knows, he's very, very funny' (GQ)
'The book not only evolves into a surprisingly evocative meditation on England and the English, but it also showcases Mr. Gill's gifts as a writer of rude invective, hyperbolic description and splenetic asides - a writer who seems to have inhaled the prose styles of Auberon Waugh, Clive James and Alexander Theroux and come up with an idiosyncratic voice all his own' (Michiko Kakutani NEW YORK TIMES)
his prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee and, just when you least expect it, lands a deft and lethal blow beneath the belt. (Terence Blacker THE SUNDAY TIMES)
the author is on typically quick-witted form. (Jim Blackburn WANDERLUST)
'An entertaining polemic . . . A thought-provoking, some would say overdue, book that challenges the English self-image of genteel reserve' (CHOICE)
'His prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee and, just when you least expect it, lands a deft and lethal blow beneath the belt' (Terence Blacker SUNDAY TIMES)
'The author is on typically quick-witted form' (Jim Blackburn WANDERLUST)
'It annoys, arouses feelings and forces one to confront received opinions. Whether one sides with it or not, one can admire the zest of the writing and applaud its splendid lack of political correctness' (Beryl Bainbridge MAIL ON SUNDAY)
'He writes beautifully. His chapter on war memorials should be a set text, his defence of political correctness is bold and true, and he really nails the philosophy of the queue' (Peter Watts TIME OUT)
'He's as much sentimentalist as satirist - listen to him, some time, eulogising stalking in Scotland - and, as everyone knows, he's very, very funny' (GQ)
'The book not only evolves into a surprisingly evocative meditation on England and the English, but it also showcases Mr. Gill's gifts as a writer of rude invective, hyperbolic description and splenetic asides - a writer who seems to have inhaled the prose styles of Auberon Waugh, Clive James and Alexander Theroux and come up with an idiosyncratic voice all his own' (Michiko Kakutani NEW YORK TIMES)
his prose floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee and, just when you least expect it, lands a deft and lethal blow beneath the belt. (Terence Blacker THE SUNDAY TIMES)
the author is on typically quick-witted form. (Jim Blackburn WANDERLUST)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1416531734
- ISBN 13 9781416531739
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages227
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