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Things Snowball
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Things Snowball
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Rich Hall
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 131 |
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Category/Genre | Humour Humour collections and anthologies |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780349115764
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Classifications | Dewey:818.5402 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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Imprint |
Abacus
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Publication Date |
2 October 2003 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'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
Author Biography
Rich Hall is the Perrier Award Winner 2000, TIME OUT Comedy Award Winner 2000 and Adelaide Festival Fringe Award Winner 2000. He is best known for his comic alter ego Otis Lee Crenshaw. He divides his time between London and Montana.
Reviews** 'Recalls the deliriously bathetic fiction of Woody Allen' TIME OUT ** 'Priceless .You guessed it: I laughed out loud' The Scotsman ** 'Very funny, considering he isn't meant to be in the country' Jack Dee
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