AA Gill is Away - Couverture rigide

Gill, Adrian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0304362158 ISBN 13 : 9780304362158

Editeur : W&N, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Gill A A

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

His reporting here is spot-on: clear-eyed, informative and compassionate ... His work is always ... surprising, original, stimulating and, for that reason, always worth reading (Lynn Barber SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

It was when he was away that he was at his best ... His walkabouts around the world were driven by an insatiable curiosity to explore and acquaint himself with cultures he knew nothing about, to rejoice in the diversity of the extraordinary world we live in, and to use his writing as a tool for change ... If A. A. Gill is to be away for a while, we should all take up the baton he has left behind and make sure we are richer, not poorer, for his absence (Stephen Daldry)

'In this collection of twenty-four accounts of trips abroad he comes across as both funny and compassionate' (DAILY EXPRESS)

'Imagine Evelyn Waugh reborn as one of Nick Hornby's endearingly superficial protagonists, and you have London's Sunday Times television and restaurant critic Gill: droll, astute, irritable, irritating and always cleaver-sharp . . . it's his bald foreignness that makes him such a skilled marksman. That, and the fact that he himself is such an original' (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY)

'Sometimes shocking, usually smart, always entertaining' (KIRKUS REVIEWS)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0304362158
• ISBN 13: 9780304362158
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256