Tales of the Country - Couverture souple

Viner, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0743495721 ISBN 13 : 9780743495721

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2006

Synopsis

Book by BRIAN VINER

A propos du livre

Description :

‘Very funny, yet underpinned by a genuinely touching honesty which makes it more than a collection of well-told stories and laugh-aloud jokes. There’s not a single dull page’
MICHAEL PALIN
'I will come around and burn your house down if you don't buy this book. I bellowed with laughter'
ALAN BLEASDALE
‘Brian Viner captures the essence of the countryside in a way only previously achieved by Thomas Hardy. Only kidding. It’s a very funny book, though’
JO BRAND
‘Warm, affectionate and very funny. I had a smile on my face all the way through, except when I was laughing out loud. And it made me want to move to the country tomorrow’
CRAIG CASH
‘Very, very funny, and moving too. A wonderful book’
ALAN BLEASDALE
'Sunny reading . . . a good natured and often amusing account of his family's first year in the sticks, after decamping from Crouch End'
VOGUE
' Very funny . . . Viner is just as hospitable with the reader was with his guests. Turning the last page, you feel you have been royally treated by a self-deprecating, hilarious host, with an eye for the local peculiarities that make England what it is'
Clive Aslet, MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Witty, not smug and warm rather than gooey. What saves Viner's book from tweeness is his genuine nice blokeishness and his willingness to be honest about himself and what he has taken on.' THE HERALD (Glasgow)
'Brian Viner's sparky book is . . . brilliant . . . To my surprise and delight, I found myself smirking, chortling and actually laughing aloud . . . In witty stream-of-consciousness ramblings Viner describes how he, Jane and their three children up sticks from cosmopolitan North London to move to rural Herefordshire . . . Viner's text sparkles with anecdotes, good jokes and hilarious observations about the human condition (particularly his own), but there is no escaping the fact that as a country dweller he's a bit of dilettante' Val Hennessy, DAILY MAIL
'Viner kept this reader amused . . . This book should really be kept by the country house bedside -- not only in Herefordshire -- and dipped into to cheer the spirits when mud, wet gundogs and intrusive mice might otherwise bring on a sense of humour failure' John Ure, TLS
'Country tales, anecdotes and real-life revelations that will make you laugh'
CHOICE magazine
'Gorgeous, terribly funny and truthfully observed, and containing a wonderful and gentle philosophy'
Joanna Lumley
‘The perfect stocking-filler’
Country Life, books of the year Dec Issue

Quatrième de couverture :

'Very funny' Michael Palin
'Terribly funny' Joanna Lumley
'Very funny' Jo Brand
When Brian and Jane Viner took their three children to live in deepest Herefordshire, after eight years in sophisticated Crouch End, north London, they wondered if they needed their heads examining. They had been happy in the city, with an abundance of like-minded friends and a choice of dozens of places to drink cappuccino; in Herefordshire they knew nobody and there were thirty five-barred gates between them and the nearest coffee outlet. Where would they find kindred spirits? What would life be like without mains sewerage? And would they ever stop being what some locals charmingly refer to as 'buggers from off'?
Full of hilarious anecdotes and wonderful characters, Tales of the Country is a beguiling chronicle of the pleasures and pitfalls that await a family from the city chasing a rural idyll.
'This book should really be kept by the country house bedside . . . and dipped into to cheer the spirits'
TLS
'Very funny . . . You feel you have been royally treated by a self-deprecating, hilarious host, with an eye for the local peculiarities that make England what it is'
Mail on Sunday
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743495721
• ISBN 13: 9780743495721
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320