The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British (First Edition)

Lyall, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0393058468 / ISBN 13: 9780393058468

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York., 2008

About this Item

First printing. Correct number line, including the 1. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight copy, which appears unread, without any marks or defects. Dust jacket is clean and bright with price of $24.95 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. Her debut, a book of nonfiction/history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British (First Edition)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York.
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393058468
• ISBN 13: 9780393058468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.

Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted their own teeth), she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life. The roller-coaster decade of Tony Blair's New Labor government was an increasingly materialistic time when old-world symbols of aristocratic privilege and stiff-upper-lip sensibility collided with modern consumerism, overwrought emotion, and a new (but still unsuccessful) effort to make the trains run on time. Appearing a half-century after Nancy Mitford's classic Noblesse Oblige, Lyall's book is a brilliantly witty account of twenty-first-century Britain that will be recognized as a contemporary classic.

About the Author

Sarah Lyall, a writer at large for the New York Times, lived in London until 2013, when she moved back home to New York. She’s still adjusting.