Lament of an Expat
How I Discovered America and Tried to Mend It
Lament of an Expat is the witty, sometimes bemused, chronicle of an expat's plunge into American culture, with its love of the gun and the sacred dollar, with its rigid constitution and singular laws and with the kindness, generosity and humanity of ordinary Americans. She describes encounters with the Mafia, a plane crash, Robert Redford, a Madam and a call girl from her home town in Wales, a famous author so drunk he couldn't talk, a cardboard funeral casket, Richard Nixon and a Caribbean wedding that was supposed to exclude God but didn't. One of her twin boys lives in New York City, she writes, while the other is in London, maintaining h…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4817-3371-7
- EAN: 9781481733717
- Produktnummer: 14728742
- Verlag: Authorhouse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 182 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 273 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 273
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