AA Gill Is Away

Name: AA Gill Is Away
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ISBN: 9780743276672

ISBN-10: 0743276671

ISBN-13: 9780743276672

Edition: 2005

Authors: A. A. Gill

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A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to theNew York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in theSunday Timesof London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge that the writer is off traveling. "My editor asked me what I wanted from journalism and I said the first thing that came into my head--I'd like to interview places. To treat a place as if it were a person, to go and listen to it, ask it questions, observe it the way you would interview a politician or a pop star," Gill writes. Upon his return, readers are treated to an account of his…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

A. A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews, which have been published as Paper View and Table Talk. He has written three books on travel: A. A. Gill is Away, Previous Convictions and A. A. Gill is Further Away, as well as two novels, and full-length studies of England, The Angry Island, and America, The Golden Door.



Foreword


How it works South


The end of the road


Sudan, May 1998 Out of their element


The Kalahari, January 1998 Game boy


Tanzania, January 1998 I don?t know what makes you angry...Uganda, October 2000 Selassie come home


Ethiopia, December 2000East


Awayday in a manger


Bethlehem, December 1999 The fatal shore


The Aral Sea, July 2000 The city that Russia forgot


Kaliningrad, June 2001 A short walk in the Hindu crush


India, January 1999 Mad in Japan


Tokyo, September 2001


WestBorn to be riled


California, October 1999 When DD met AA


U.S. Pornography, November 1999 Sex and the city


Cuba, March 1999 Ride ?em chowboy


Argentina, January 2001


North The thin line


Milan Fashion Week, October 1995 Hunforgiven


Germany, July 1999 Scumball rally Monaco, October 2001


Return of the native


Scotland, May 1999Look who?s stalking


The British Army?s Sniping Course, Wales,January 2000 To the manure born


The Royal Agricultural Show, September 2000Roller derby


Owning a Rolls-Royce, October 2001