The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
by Sarah Lyall

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
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Author: Sarah Lyall
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-17
ISBN: 0393058468
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

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Book Review: The Anglo Funnies
Summary: 4 Stars

Sarah Lyall's "The Anglo Files" never pretends to offer a serious scientific analysis of the British people. My fellow American anglophiles who bemoan Lyall's "mean" approach should try decaf for their afternoon tea. The book aims to entertain, and on that count, it delivers. "The Anglo Files" was the perfect bedside table book for the end of the day. The writing engages the reader, the pages turn quickly and I often found myself laughing out loud. The writer details interesting aspects of British life and backs up her assertions with many entertaining details and vignettes. Readers will find that the writer seeks to "singe not burn" her subjects and will ultimately find that she holds a deep respect for the nation she sends up to hilarious effect. As an anglophile, "The Anglo Files" will probably be the most fun book I read this year.

Summary of The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British

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.

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