‘I stopped off at the Peace Gardens - a memorial straddling the US-Canadian border commemorating 'Lasting Peace Between America and Canada', as if there had ever been a problem. Show me a garden commemorating Peace Between America and, say, Iraq and I’ll be impressed.
America is like a beauty contestant. It’s gorgeous, until it opens its mouth.’
From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours, to what cryptic crosswords really tell us about the British psyche, American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic contradictions and weird marvels of his native and adoptive homelands.
‘Full of acute left-field reflections on America and Americans, plus some marvellously irreverent sketches …wise, witty and strangely true' GUARDIAN
- ‘Recalls the deliriously bathetic fiction of Woody Allen’ TIME OUT
- ‘A highly entertaining collection …poised somewhere between the classic prose efforts of Woody Allen and the more measured eye of David Sedaris’ INDEPENDENT
- 'Supremely talented, quick-witted, topical and charismatic' THE TIMES
- ‘His rapid fire wit is so spontaneous he should leave his brain to science’ GUARDIAN
- 'Inspired.' SUNDAY TRIBUNE
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Published 02/10/2003