Fülszöveg
1 stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the
US-Canadian border commemorating "Lasting Peace Between
America and Canada", as if there had ever been a problem.
Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America
and, say, Iraq and 111 be impressed.
America is like a beauty contestant. It's gorgeous, until it
opens its mouth.'
From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours,
to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche,
American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic
contradictions and weird marvels of his native and adoptive
homelands.
'A highly entertaining collection . . . poised somewhere between the
classic prose efforts of Woody Allen and the more measured
eye of David Sedaris'
Independent
'Full of acute left-field reflections on America and Americans, plus some
marvellously irreverent sketches . . . wise, witty and strangely true'
Guardian
'Perrier-award winner and former David...
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Fülszöveg
1 stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the
US-Canadian border commemorating "Lasting Peace Between
America and Canada", as if there had ever been a problem.
Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America
and, say, Iraq and 111 be impressed.
America is like a beauty contestant. It's gorgeous, until it
opens its mouth.'
From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours,
to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche,
American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic
contradictions and weird marvels of his native and adoptive
homelands.
'A highly entertaining collection . . . poised somewhere between the
classic prose efforts of Woody Allen and the more measured
eye of David Sedaris'
Independent
'Full of acute left-field reflections on America and Americans, plus some
marvellously irreverent sketches . . . wise, witty and strangely true'
Guardian
'Perrier-award winner and former David Letterman gagsmith, Rich Hall is
also one of the greatest prose comedy writers. At his best, he recalls
the deliriously bathetic fiction of Woody Allen'
Time Out
'Priceless . . . You guessed it: I laughed out loud'
The Scotsman
'Very funny, considering he isn't meant to be in the country'
Jack Dee
Vissza