Class (Paperback)

Jilly Cooper

ISBN 10: 0552146625 / ISBN 13: 9780552146623

Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd, London, 2005

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Paperback. CLASS IS DEAD! Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper! Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions.For they will all remind you of people that you know! 'HIGHLY ENTERTAINING, ACERBIC AND WICKEDLY OBSERVANT.CERTAIN TO BECOME AS MUCH PART OF THE VERBAL SHORTHAND AS WAS NANCY MITFORD'S U AND NON-U, A GENERATION AGO' The Economist 'ENORMOUSLY READABLE AND VERY FUNNY' Cosmopolitan Describing herself as "upper middle class", Jilly Cooper claims that snobbery is alive and kicking! Meet her characters - Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Harry Stow-Crat and Jen Teale, and observe thair everyday pretensions - their courtships, furnishings, clothes, food and careers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Class (Paperback)
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552146625
• ISBN 13: 9780552146623
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Describing herself as “upper middle class”, Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretentions — their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions…

For they will all remind you of people that you know!

From the Publisher

An Expose of the English Class System

With drawings by Timothy Jaques

"Witheringly funny, illuminated by astonishing brilliance" - Observer

"Enormously readable and very funny" - Cosmopolitan

Synopsis: Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau- Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat.