The Angry Island - Hunting the English

Zusatztext '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' Informationen zum Autor A.A. Gill was the renowned restaurant and TV critic, and features writer, for The Sunday Times . He was a contributor to Vanity Fair , GQ , the Spectator and Australian Gourmet Traveller , and a columnist for Esquire . His books include A.A. GILL IS AWAY, THE ANGRY ISLAND, PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS, TABLE TALK, PAPER VIEW, A.A. GILL IS FURTHER AWAY, THE GOLDEN DOOR, THE BEST OF A.A. GILL and the highly acclaimed memoir POUR ME. He died in 2016. Klappentext Selecting fifteen destinations as likely to yield clues to the character of the English, A.A. Gill travels the kingdom in pursuit of his own notion that beneath the picture-postcard vision of warm beer, village cricket and tolerance lurks a combative, belligerent nation. Zusammenfassung Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English

Product details

• Authors: A. A. Gill, Adrian Gill, Gill Adrian
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.07.2006
• EAN: 9780753820964
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2096-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, United Kingdom, Great Britain