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Lyall, Sarah

 
9780393058468: The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
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ISBN 10: 0393058468 ISBN 13: 9780393058468
Editorial: W W NORTON & CO, 2008

Sinopsis

An American New York Times reporter best known for her lighthearted dispatches on her adopted home in London shares whimsical observations about Tony Blair's New Labor government and its interrelation with old-world and modern cultural values.

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Reseña del editor

Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted their own teeth), she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life. The roller-coaster decade of Tony Blair's New Labor government was an increasingly materialistic time when old-world symbols of aristocratic privilege and stiff-upper-lip sensibility collided with modern consumerism, overwrought emotion, and a new (but still unsuccessful) effort to make the trains run on time. Appearing a half-century after Nancy Mitford's classic Noblesse Oblige, Lyall's book is a brilliantly witty account of twenty-first-century Britain that will be recognized as a contemporary classic.

Biografía del autor

Sarah Lyall grew up in New York City and writes for the New York Times in London. She lives there with her husband, the writer Robert McCrum, and their two daughters.

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Editorial
W W NORTON & CO
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393058468
ISBN 13 
9780393058468
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
289
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ISBN 10:  0393334767 ISBN 13:  9780393334760
Editorial: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2009
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