The Battle for Room Service Mark Lawson

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Zusammenfassung

'Anyone who can write about places like Milton Keynes and Normal, Illinois and leave you gasping for more has got to have a rare talent' Bill Bryson

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The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places Mark Lawson

Beginning in Timaru, reputedly the most activity-challenged place in New Zealand, Lawson travels through Australia and Canada, where he learns to be especially wary of any place named after Queen Victoria or her close relatives. After dropping in on Normal, Illinois and Dead Horse, Alaska - place names in the quiet world are sometimes disarmingly honest - he travels through soothing Switzerland, Milton Keynes, and Belgium, before his journey's end in EuroDisney, Expo '92, and Center Parcs: territories of Somewhere, the new tourist continent where, in a reversal of the usual rules of travel, countries come to you.

The Battle for Room Service Bewertungen

'A tour de force of wit, vitriol, information, and perception, and far superior to most travel books' Sunday Express
'A fine journalist, he writes with fluency and wit. Hilarious set-pieces include the occasion when he is mistaken for Anita Brookner by a Korean long-pipe salesman. His energetic relish of the language can remind one of Clive James' Nicholas Shakespeare, Telegraph
'The book is consistently hilarious; Lawson makes you laugh, a lot, every couple of minutes' Spectator
'He has a good ear and eye. He is a rewarding companion and guide. And his humour is always studiously unforced' Financial Times
'This is Mark Lawson at his best' Bill Bryson

Über Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson is a novelist and cultural critic. He has published four novels including Idlewild, Going Out Live and Enough Is Enough. His work as a broadcaster includes presenting Radio 4's Front Row and Foreign Bodies - A History of Crime Fiction and BBC4's Mark Lawson Talks to . . . . He also writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR006739394

ISBN 13

9781447266679

ISBN 10

1447266676

Titel

The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places Mark Lawson

Autor

Mark Lawson

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

Pan Macmillan

Datum

2014-02-13

Anzahl der Seiten

304

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