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Author Lyall, Sarah.

Title The Anglo files : a field guide to the British / Sarah Lyall.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  942.086 L98a, 2008    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description 289 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and index.
Contents Naughty boys and rumpy-pumpy -- Honorable members -- A fact too good to check -- Distressed British nationals -- More than a game -- Toiletgate -- Lawmakers from another planet -- False modesty -- The naked guy and angle-grinder man -- Invasion of the hedgehog people -- "I snapped it out myself" -- Wine from weeds -- "By God, Sir, I've lost my leg!" -- The best of the day.
Summary Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century.
Subject Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Americans -- England -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN 9780393058468 (hardcover)
0393058468 (hardcover)

 
    
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