Synopsis
“Should be handed out . . . in the immigration line at Heathrow.” —Malcolm Gladwell
About Sarah Lyall
See more books from this Author“Many of the unkind clichés about British dental care,” she writes, are “dead accurate.” In fact, in her telling, many of the clichés — unkind and less so — about British everything are true: their teeth are crooked, their homes are drafty, their men “harbor erotic fantasies about former prime mi...
Aug 22 2008 | Read Full Review of The Anglo Files: A Field Guid...A funny, deeply reported look at why the Brits are the way they are.
Aug 29 2008 | Read Full Review of The Anglo Files: A Field Guid...after all, she married a Brit, has a couple of British kids, lives in London and covers the United Kingdom for The New York Times, which allows her to be "professionally nosy in a place where the truth beneath the surface is not always readily apparent."The book is frequently amusing and well-wri...
| Read Full Review of The Anglo Files: A Field Guid...FOREIGNERS' ATTEMPTS TO UNderstand Britain have produced shelf-fulls of books that with rare exceptions (Bill Bryson being one) have left no-one any the wiser.
Nov 13 2008 | Read Full Review of The Anglo Files: A Field Guid...Lyall also examines the differences between the generation of Brits who came of age during WW II, the queen’s generation, and the post war generation of Princess Diana.
Nov 28 2009 | Read Full Review of The Anglo Files: A Field Guid...An aggregated and normalized score based on 124 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes