Big Babies: or: Why Can't We Just Grow Up? - Couverture souple

Bywater, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862079579 ISBN 13 : 9781862079571

Editeur : Granta Books, 2006

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

I suspect [this book] might change our world... it details, in shocking and visceral and wincingly recognisable fashion the way in which we are treated, by government and advertising and people who write signs and, well, everyone really, as if we are all mewling infants who have to be told, essentially, look look shiny shiny coin coin every forlorn second of every babyish day. --The Observer

Sharp, very funny and slightly disturbing...it is hard to know which group should be more despised: that which bosses and patronises with its imprudent warnings or that which feebly acquiesces. But one thing is certain: neither is likely to read Big Babies, for it is far too intelligent, witty and original to appeal to any of these infantile minds...Bywater must be our leader, Big Babies our bible. --The Telegraph

Michael Bywater [is] a wonderfully sharp and witty writer, whose sentences sing and dance, whose fluffiest paragraphs are held up by a steal core of thought. --The Scotsman

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Michael Bywater turns his penetrating eye on the state of Western culture, from politics and the media to show business and science, and concludes we are all Big Babies now. With enormous brio, he argues that the Baby-Boom generation is now running the show, and its own commitment to perpetual infantility is reflected in its unstoppable drive to infantilize the rest of us.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1862079579
• ISBN 13: 9781862079571
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256