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Chargement... The English: A Field Guidepar Matt Rudd
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A hilarious field guide to the world's most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English. Thanks to television documentaries by Bruce Parry and David Attenborough, we are better acquainted with the hunting rituals of the San bushmen and the mating habits of Papua New Guinean tribes than we are with the everyday lives of that most peculiar of species - the English. In 'The English: A Field Guide', Sunday Times journalist Matt Rudd, sets out to uncover what makes us, the English, tick. He will examine us in our natural habitats, starting with the living room and moving out to the kitchen, the garden, the commuter train, the office, the motorway, the high street, the sports stadium, the pub, club, bingo hall, balti house, beach and ending up in the bedroom. Hilarious, warm-hearted and surprisingly enlightening, 'The English' shines a strong searchlight on us all. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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His 8,000 mile journey takes him from the sofa to the kitchen, the commute to the office via the pub, round the shops and has a brief sojourn to the sporting arena. Having considered the delights of exercise, he has a brief trip down the motorway for a day at the beach and then home and to bed.
In all of these he looks that the way that we are, and the things that we do, with razor sharp accuracy, wit and a good dollop of humour. He spends a slightly cringeworthy saturday night with a family, discovers more dating takes place by the photocopier than in the usual haunts, finds out that we are working longer hours now than 30 years ago, and that people having now filled their lounges with 50 inch plasmas, are prepared to pay a fortune to revitalise their gardens, before opening the bedroom door, slips between the sheets and learns that we are not as prudish as we like others to think we are.
There are some genuine laugh out loud parts in this book, and it is full of those moments when you realise he is talking about you... (