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Pour Me, a Life

Author : A.A. Gill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 039957493X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Pour Me, a Life written by A.A. Gill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. “Pour Me a Life is an unapologetically honest, raw, and often harrowing account of the life of a man who, up until now, we only thought we knew. Here is A.A. Gill at his best. A real-life Bright Lights, Big City.” —Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin, and author of the New York Timesbestseller 32 Yolks Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, A.A. Gill’s Pour Me a Life is a riveting memoir of the author’s alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments in art, food, religion, and family that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. By his early twenties, at London’s prestigious Saint Martin’s art school, journalist Adrian Gill was entrenched in alcoholism. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that “were like tiny crime scenes,” helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Throughout his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too damaged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center—then a rare and revolutionary concept in England—and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind.

To America with Love

Author : A.A. Gill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596216
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book To America with Love written by A.A. Gill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist serves up an “immensely entertaining book inspired by his love and knowledge of America” (Sunday Times, London). IN TO AMERICA WITH LOVE, celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist A. A. Gill traverses the Atlantic to become the freshest chronicler of American identity in recent memory. With a fiery temper, a sharp-tongued wit, and an insatiable curiosity to figure out what makes more than 300 million of the world’s population tick, Gill traces the history and logic of our nation’s habits, collecting wild stories and startling facts along the way. From Colorado, where he meets a local vegetation expert and learns which flowers were in Pocahontas’s nuptial bouquet, to Kentucky, where he visits the Creationist Museum and drinks moonshine with a hog farmer, and to Harlem, where he misses a turn and stumbles into the wrong barbershop for a once-in-a-lifetime haircut, Gill embarks on a tour of not only the nation’s landscape but also its psyche, playing adventurer, philosopher, statistician, and raconteur all at once. In inimitable fashion he explains why pressing a button in a Manhattan elevator means entering a social contract of American etiquette and inverting conventional hierarchies of space; why browsing through Playboy centerfolds becomes the perfect litmus test for a generation’s political views; and how Hollywood is the metaphysical marketplace for movies, the place where Americans are sold on American romance and taught how to dream the American dream. Weaving together a tapestry of historical erudition and outrageous anecdotes, Gill ultimately captures the scope and spirit of a nation that started off as a conceptual experiment and became a political, scientific, and cultural fortress. This humorous and revelatory book shows us why we are who we are by transforming ordinary experiences into extraordinary lessons and promising to never let us look in the mirror the same way again.

Paper View

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Paper View written by A. A. Gill and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AA Gill has been the must-read television critic in the Sunday Times 'Culture' section for more than ten years. This collection of some of the best writing from his columns is broken down into themes - Sport, Costume Drama, Detectives, Children's Television, and News. And now it's over to AA Gill... "Those who complain, usually from the Parnassian heights of print journalism, that TV is dumbed-down and peddles dross to the lowest common denominator, citing Big Brother or Celibate Love Island, miss the point. Reality TV is the exception; it's a tiny proportion of television's output. Most of broadcasting tells you things, and it's TV's great gift to impart information. The real criticism should be that it doesn't differentiate enough. It doesn't know the value of the stuff it pours out in a constant warm stream. We absorb what's useful and interesting. In barely a generation, the information from television has changed the way we see the world and everyone in it. That's no small achievement. Television really does make a difference. There are obvious individual examples: 'Cathy Come Home'; the newsreel of the Vietnam war in America; the Ethiopian famine. And television has utterly changed sport. Do you imagine there'd be anything like this fuss over an Olympics bid if it was only going to be shown on Pathe newsreel? Charities and pressure groups, from pillar-box conservation to animal welfare and cancer research, glean power and funds from tiny exposures on the box. It can bring down walls, save lives and right wrongs. It can also tell you how to put a water feature on your patio..."

Table Talk

Author : A.A. Gill
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297864696
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Table Talk written by A.A. Gill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic A.A. Gill knows food, and loves food. A meal is never just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a metaphor for life. A.A. Gill delights in decoding what lies behind the food on our plates: famously, his reviews are as much ruminations on society at large as they are about the restaurants themselves. So alongside the concepts, customers and cuisines, ten years of writing about restaurants has yielded insights on everything from yaks to cowboys, picnics to politics. TABLE TALK is an idiosyncratic selection of A.A. Gill's writing about food, taken from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it is a celebration of what great eating can be, an excoriation of those who get it wrong, and an education about our own appetites. Because it spans a decade, the book focuses on A.A. Gill's general dining experiences rather than individual restaurants - food fads, tipping, chefs, ingredients, eating in town and country and abroad, and the best and worst dining experiences. Fizzing with wit, it is a treat for gourmands, gourmets and anyone who relishes good writing.

AA Gill is Away

Author : A.A. Gill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548181
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book AA Gill is Away written by A.A. Gill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge that the writer is off traveling. "My editor asked me what I wanted from journalism and I said the first thing that came into my head--I'd like to interview places. To treat a place as if it were a person, to go and listen to it, ask it questions, observe it the way you would interview a politician or a pop star," Gill writes. Upon his return, readers are treated to an account of his vacations to places like famine-stricken Sudan, the pornography studios of California's San Fernando Valley, the dying Aral Sea or the seedy parts of Kaliningrad. The result is one of the most fascinating, stylish and irreverent collections of travel writing.

Lines in the Sand

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474605151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Lines in the Sand written by A. A. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.A. Gill's writing: an embarrassment of riches. This selection of some of his recent pieces, spanning the last five years, sees him at his most perceptive, brilliant and funny. His subjects range from the controversial - fur - to the heartfelt - a fantastic crystallisation of what it means to be European. He tackles life drawing, designs his own tweed, considers boyhood through the prism of the Museum of Childhood and spends a day at Donald Trump's university. His award-winningly acerbic review of Morrissey's autobiography sits alongside the insight he brings to the work of Rudyard Kipling, Don McCullin and Lord Snowdon. And he turns that insight on himself in the terrific article "Life at Sixty"

The Best of A. A. Gill

Author : Adrian Gill
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474607759
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Best of A. A. Gill written by Adrian Gill and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collection of a voice that was silenced too early but that can still make us look at the world in new and surprising ways. In the words of Andrew Marr, A.. A. Gill was 'a golden writer'. There was nothing that he couldn't illuminate with his dazzling prose. Wherever he was - at home or abroad - he found the human story, brought it to vivid life, and rendered it with fierce honesty and bracing compassion. And he was just as truthful about himself. There have been various collections of A. A. Gill's journalism - individual compilations of his restaurant and TV criticism, of his travel writing and his extraordinary feature articles. This book showcasesthe very best of his work: the peerlessly funny criticism, the extraordinarily knowledgeable food writing, assignments throughout the world, and reflections on life, love, and death. Drawn from a range of publications, including the Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Tatler and Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Ivy Cookbook and his books on England and America, it is by turns hilarious, uplifting, controversial, unflinching, sad, funny and furious.

Autobiography

Author : Morrissey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 014310750X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography written by Morrissey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spend the day in bed” with Autobiography by Morrissey, whose new album Low in High School is out November 17th Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982–1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy Moore, amongst others. An animal protectionist, in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon by viewers of the BBC, losing out to Sir David Attenborough. In 2007 Morrissey was voted the greatest northern male, past or present, in a nationwide newspaper poll. In 2012, Morrissey was awarded the Keys to the City of Tel-Aviv. It has been said “Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.”

The Angry Island

Author : A.A. Gill
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0297864688
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Angry Island written by A.A. Gill and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Breakfast at the Wolseley

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844004447
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Breakfast at the Wolseley written by A. A. Gill and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day and nowhere is that fact more appreciated than at the Wolseley restaurant in London's Piccadilly. The brainchild of Jeremy King and Chris Corbin - celebrated restaurateurs - the Wolseley is a cross between the traditional robustness of the Parisian brasserie and the gloriously grand but cosy comfort of the Viennese cafe. Breakfast is an institution at the Wolseley and whether you want a healthy breakfast of fruit, cereal and yoghurt, or a full no-fuss English, every need is catered for using the finest ingredients from the best of British and European producers. "Breakfast at the Wolseley" serves up the ultimate guide to producing and enjoying a superb breakfast in the Wolseley style. There is a host of delicious recipes. You can also learn more about the background and ethos of the Wolseley with a description of the building and how it became the icon it is today.

Distant Intimacy

Author : Frederic Raphael
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300186940
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Distant Intimacy written by Frederic Raphael and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a dazzling, year-long, transatlantic correspondence between an American and British author who have never met and yet are still friends.

The Best of A.A. Gill

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781476407746
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Best of A.A. Gill written by A. A. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

List of the Lost

Author : Morrissey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141983080
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book List of the Lost written by Morrissey and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Penguin Books is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication ofaList of the Lost, Morrissey's extraordinary novel, on 24 September. High-octane, ferociously lyrical,aList of the Lostashows a side of Morrissey never seen before. Beware the novelist . . . intimate and indiscreet . . . pompous, prophetic airs . . . here is the fact of fiction . . . an American tale where, naturally, evil conquers good, and none live happily ever after, for the complicated pangs of the empty experiences of flesh-and-blood human figures are the reason why nothing can ever be enough. To read a book is to let a root sink down.aList of the lostais the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true.'aMorrissey"

Le Caprice

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340738382
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Le Caprice written by A. A. Gill and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famed London restaurant, La Caprice, has been a contemporary restaurant since the forties, reflecting the appetites of creative London. From simply the best Eggs Benedict and Chopped Steak to the Epicurean Baked Razor Clams and Truffle-Studded Roast Capon, the recipes from Le Caprice are a directory of what fashionable London fancies on a plate most often. Whether it is the lightest lunch, a restorative brunch, or an indulgent first-night celebration, Le Caprice provides with practiced elan and panache.

Far and Away

Author : Adrian Gill
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474617383
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Far and Away written by Adrian Gill and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated every page. This second collection of his journalism brings together pieces from near and far. He was ferociously well-travelled and wrote 'abroad is as foreign and funny and strange and shocking as it ever was, and our need to know our neighbours every bit as great'. Far and Away is a book about meeting those neighbours. Wherever he was - with the glitterati in St Tropez or in the ruins of earthquake-stricken Haiti - he had the ability to pin down the heart of a story and render it unforgettable. He was a peerless writer about food, and we also join him at tables all around the globe. A.A. Gill had the gift of making his readers see the world in a different way. And, always, of making them laugh. This collection is an opportunity to marvel at a master at work.

Sap Rising

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher : Transworld Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780552996792
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Sap Rising written by A. A. Gill and published by Transworld Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satire of manners about a garden in a West London square and the unlikely members of its garden committee.

The Ivy

Author : A. A. Gill
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780340693131
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Ivy written by A. A. Gill and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1999-03-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: