Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings: A Miserable Yank Finds Happiness in the UK: A Miserable Yank Discovers the Secret of Happiness in Britain - Softcover

Gutfeld, Greg

 
9781847370662: Lessons from the Land of Pork Scratchings: A Miserable Yank Finds Happiness in the UK: A Miserable Yank Discovers the Secret of Happiness in Britain
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847370667 ISBN 13: 9781847370662
Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK, 2008

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Greg Gutfeld was a high-achieving, slim but anxious New Yorker in therapy when he was posted to the UK to take up the position of editor of Maxim magazine. Once settled in London he had something of a cultural epiphany. Service and transport were poor and slow, food was soggy and came in tiny portions and the beer was warm. The British, he decided, viewed the world through a prism of dreariness but, despite this, they seemed to be more cheerful than his fellow countrymen, who expected to be happy on demand.
After two years in the UK, Gutfeld was12 kilos heavier but a lot more content. The key to his new-found contentment lay in adopting the British attitude to life: he too had learned that having diminished expectations reaps its own rewards. His hilarious observations on British culture, rituals and peculiarities at all levels of society are an illuminating insight into the land of pubs and curry, where everyone is called 'mate' and people with pimples, wrinkles and greasy hair can get on primetime TV.

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Verlag
Simon & Schuster UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847370667
ISBN 13 
9781847370662
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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