Yes We Have No: Adventures in the Other England [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Cohn, Nik

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0394568702 ISBN 13: 9780394568706

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

A portrait of the hidden side of England presents a country of techno-freaks, obsessed soccer fans, graffiti artists, Elvis impersonators, faith healers, and fetishists, in a study of a side of the country seldom seen by tourists

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nik Cohn is the author of <b> Need</b>, a novel, and <b>The Heart of the World,</b> which won the Thomas Cook Award for best travel book  of 1992.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

cricket, tea with the vicar and the changing of the guard (and about the much-hyped Cool Britannia as well), and encounter a hidden nation -- the many millions who've fallen out of the mainstream, or chosen to jump. Nik Cohn's kaleidoscopic England is made up of techno-freaks and soccer-obsessives, faith healers and fetishists, graffiti artists, Odinists, Rastas, Elvis impersonators, even the Antichrist. Armed with insatiable curiosity and guided by Mary Carson, an unstoppable Irish firebrand, Cohn whirls from the changing countryside of Cornwall and East Anglia to the ravaged postindustrial North, from riotous seaside towns to London netherworlds. Whether rampaging native or second-generation immigrant, each member of this remarkable chorus has a distinct story and a voice to match, and their lives define a world cut loose from tradition and all certainty. Gone bananas, in fact.<br><br>Humane and exuberant -- a surprising guide to a country we thought we knew, and writing of the highest order.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0394568702
• ISBN 13: 9780394568706
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 327
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile