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The Angry Island

- Hunting the English
Af: Adrian Gill Engelsk Paperback

The Angry Island

- Hunting the English
Af: Adrian Gill Engelsk Paperback
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Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English

The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They''re incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations.

Perhaps aware that they''re living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They''ve built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don''t like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there''ll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty, personal and readable book, A.A. Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye.

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Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of England and the English

The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They''re incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations.

Perhaps aware that they''re living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They''ve built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don''t like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there''ll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty, personal and readable book, A.A. Gill looks anger and the English straight in the eye.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780753820964
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 075382096X
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 26 jul 2006
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 139mm
Højde: 182mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 26 jul 2006
Forfatter(e): Adrian Gill
Forfatter(e) Adrian Gill

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780753820964

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 139mm

Højde 182mm

Udg. Dato 26 jul 2006

Oplagsdato 26 jul 2006

Forlag Orion Publishing Co