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Author : Guy Harrington
Publisher : Dewi Lewis Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781904587972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)
Download or read book An Englishman in New York written by Guy Harrington and published by Dewi Lewis Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be English and live in New York?
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176898
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book One Fat Englishman written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything, not least his own overgrown self. In America, Roger Micheldene must deal with not so obliging suburban housewives, aspiring Jewish novelists who as good as clean his clock, stray deer, bad cigars, children who beat him at Scrabble (“It was no wonder that people were horrible when they started life as children”), and America itself, while making ever-more desperate and humiliating overtures to Helen, a Scandinavian ice queen. If only Roger would dare to show some real feeling of his own. This comic masterpiece—about the 1950s crashing drunkenly into the consumerist 1960s and a final scion of a disintegrating Old World empire encountering its upstart New World offspring—is one of Kingsley Amis’s greatest and most caustic performances.
Author : Karen Howes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865653887
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)
Download or read book New York Interiors written by Karen Howes and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking visual homage to the Big Apple by leading interiors photographer Simon Upton In his first book, renowned interiors photographer Simon Upton turns his camera on one of his most-loved destinations in this personal exploration of fashionable homes in New York City. Urbane and characterful, New York Interiors unveils the photographer's favorite interior projects from the city, intertwined with atmospheric images of the metropolis and its most stylish residents. Presented in two halves--City and Getaway--the book showcases city living from uptown to downtown, as well as the chic retreats of the Hamptons and other exclusive weekend destinations where New Yorkers head to relax.
Author : Tom Shales
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316295078
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Live From New York written by Tom Shales and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as "incredible" (Vulture) and "required reading" (People). When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades. Now decades have passed, and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175921
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Old Devils written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize Winner A pub gathering of elderly married couples devolves into booze-inflected reminiscing—and complaining—in this “sharp and funny” English comedy about marriage, aging, and friendship (The Washington Post). Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, however, when two old friends unexpectedly return from England: Alun Weaver, now a celebrated man of Welsh letters, and his entrancing wife, Rhiannon. Long-dormant rivalries and romances are rudely awakened, as life at the Bible and Crown, the local pub, is changed irrevocably. Considered by Martin Amis to be Kingsley Amis’s greatest achievement—a book that “stands comparison with any English novel of the [twentieth] century”—The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
Author : James McClure
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blood of an Englishman written by James McClure and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McClure's new South African case for Lieut. Tromp Kramer and Zulu Sgt. Zondi is full of his usual strengths--dust-real atmosphere, ironic dialogue, splendid spot-characterization--but this time the mystery itself doesn't measure up; and the hardworking subplots nearly overwhelm the story as they stretch out the proceedings to undue length. ""Bonzo"" Hookham, an English widower visiting his snobby sister and brother-in-law, is found shot dead in a car-trunk, his body apparently crushed by superhuman force. Could this death connect with the recent attempted shooting of shady local antique dealer Bradshaw, who claims that his assailant was a giant? Indeed the bullets match up--and Kramer, despite skepticism from his boss, begins developing elaborate theories, especially when it appears that both men were in the RAF. But all these notions fall apart with a third un-related shooting, and shaky Kramer is off the case (time out for an affair with unappealing Tish). . . till a clue involving Bradshaw's slimy son brings on a series of final showdowns--Kirkus Reviews.
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743233026
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Sin Killer written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Lucky Jim written by Kingsley Amis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Sadler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743492404
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book An Englishman a la Campagne written by Michael Sadler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parisien now wants to be a paysan, but it's easier said than done . . . How do you plant leeks in cement-hard French soil, impress Gallic neighbours with your non-existent gardening credentials and survive a seven-hour celebratory communion lunch (followed by dinner)? What skills are required to cope with suicidal French mice (souricide?), resist the advances of an attractive but desperate lady cheese-maker during an English lesson, buy wine from Mr Grump the grower, and -- last but not least -- stoop so low as to snap up the plastic trophy in the annual garden competition? AN ENGLISHMAN A LA CAMPAGNE is a wonderfully warm and witty follow-up to the author's account of his first year living in Paris. Now broadening his affectionate embrace to include the myriad facets of the French countryside, Sadler makes you laugh, makes you think, and makes you love the place . . . even Donges, which won first prize in his competition for the grottiest village in France.
Author : Roger Bennett
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062958720
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Reborn in the USA written by Roger Bennett and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980’s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett’s signature pop culture flair and humor. Being a teenager isn’t easy, no matter where in the world you live or how much it does or doesn’t rain in your hometown. As an outsider—a private-schooled Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool—Roger Bennett wasn’t winning any popularity contests. But there was one idea, or ideal, that burned bright in Roger’s heart. That was America— with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with flipped collars who ate at McDonald’s. When he embraced American popular culture, the dull gray world he lived in turned to neon teal—a color which had not even been invented in England yet. Introduced first through the gateway drug of The Love Boat, then to Rolling Stone, the NFL, John Hughes movies, Run-DMC, and Tracy Chapman, Roger embraced everything that would capture the imagination of a teenager growing up Stateside. When he made a real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the summer, he got to visit the promised land. A month in Chicago, and a life-changing night spent in the company of the Chicago Bears, was the first hit of freedom, of independence, of the Roger Bennett he knew he could be. (Re)Born in the USA captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. Drenched in the culture of the late ’80s and ’90s from the UK and the USA, and the heartfelt, hilarious sense of humor that has made Roger Bennett so beloved by his listeners, here is both a truly unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America that the country needs right now.
Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590176162
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Green Man written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, romantic woes, and alcoholism in this humorous and “rattling good ghost story” from a Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times) Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral. Maurice’s problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend’s wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death. The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.
Author : Patrick Dalton
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 9781907554810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Shit New York written by Patrick Dalton and published by Portico. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'New York, like London, seems to be a toilet of all the depravities of human nature.' Thomas Jefferson Welcome to New York. One of the most vibrant and beautiful cities in the world. Home to the most iconic skyline human beings have ever clapped their eyes on. It is the birthplace of Liberty, freedom and hot-dogs. It boasts some of the planet's most alluring and enduring attractions and some of the most expensive retail and residential square footage known to estate agents. It is home to the Knicks, Mets, Yankees, Giants, Jets and Devils. It is the city infamously referred to as the city that never sleeps. And it's true. It doesn't. Which is why, now, after all these years, it has started to look a little tired. A little run down. A little exhausted. In short, it is a city falling apart, on its knees and in need of a damn good bath. The book is a hilarious collection of photographs of the world's most fascinating city at its worst. The photos reveal the eccentricities, bleakness and humour of every nook and cranny of the sprawling five boroughs. Shit New York is a warts-and-all walk around the world's favourite city seen through the eyes of its locals and Patrick Dalton – the quintessential Englishman in New York. Word count: 3,000
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393240339
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America written by Terry Eagleton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (Washington Post). Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as “aggressive,” use superlatives to describe everything from one’s pet dog to one’s rock collection, or speak frequently of being “empowered.” Why, asks Eagleton, must we broadcast our children’s school grades with bumper stickers announcing “My Child Made the Honor Roll”? Why don’t we appreciate the indispensability of the teapot? And why must we remain so irritatingly optimistic, even when all signs point to failure? On his quirky journey through the language, geography, and national character of the United States, Eagleton proves to be at once an informal and utterly idiosyncratic guide to our peculiar race. He answers the questions his compatriots have always had but (being British) dare not ask, like why Americans willingly rise at the crack of dawn, even on Sundays, or why we publicly chastise cigarette smokers as if we’re all spokespeople for the surgeon general. In this pithy, warmhearted, and very funny book, Eagleton melds a good old-fashioned roast with genuine admiration for his neighbors “across the pond.”
Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501163876
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Golden Hill written by Francis Spufford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: Faber & Faber, 2016.
Author : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979947
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book The Last Englishmen written by Deborah Baker and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their younger brothers—W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender—achieved literary fame, they vied to be included on an expedition that would deliver Everest’s summit to an Englishman, a quest that had become a metaphor for Britain’s struggle to maintain power over India. To this rivalry was added another: in the summer of 1938 both men fell in love with a painter named Nancy Sharp. Her choice would determine where each man’s wartime loyalties would lie. Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies, Die Hards and Indian nationalists, political rogues and police informers. Key among them is a highborn Bengali poet named Sudhin Datta, a melancholy soul torn, like many of his generation, between hatred of the British Empire and a deep love of European literature, whose life would be upended by the arrival of war on his Calcutta doorstep. Dense with romance and intrigue, and of startling relevance for the great power games of our own day, Deborah Baker’s The Last Englishmen is an engrossing story that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.
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Publisher : Nouvelles éditions Scala
ISBN 13 : 9781857599671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Bill Jacklin's New York written by and published by Nouvelles éditions Scala. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an 'Englishman in New York' since 1985, the artist Bill Jacklin has concentrated on painting 'urban portraits' of the city in all its guises - from large scale canvases of crowds in flux to intimate moments in Seurat-like etchings. As a member of the Royal Academy in London, Jacklin's paintings have been exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in London and New York since the 1980s and he has participated in numerous one-man and group exhibitions around the world from the 1970s until today.
Author : Quentin Crisp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555834661
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Resident Alien written by Quentin Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.
