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AA Gill Is Away

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Description for AA Gill Is Away Paperback. A collection of travel writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 232.

'Theatre, food, refugees: in Adrian's writing they're all linked up ... If you haven't read his book AA GILL IS AWAY, read it now. It was when he was away that he was at his best' Stephen Daldry

A. A. Gill was probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertained readers of the SUNDAY TIMES with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who objected to his opinions agree: his writing is hopelessly, painfully funny. He was one of a tiny band of must-read journalists and it was always a disappointment when the words 'A.A. Gill is away' appeared at the foot of his column. This book is the fruit of those absences: twenty-five long travel pieces that belie his reputation as a mere style-journalist and master of vitriol: this is travel writing of the highest quality and ambition.

Product Details

Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753816813
SKU
V9780753816813
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Adrian Gill
A.A. Gill was the renowned restaurant and TV critic, and features writer, for The Sunday Times. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, GQ, the Spectator and Australian Gourmet Traveller, and a columnist for Esquire. His books include A.A. GILL IS AWAY, THE ANGRY ISLAND, PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS, TABLE TALK, PAPER VIEW, A.A. GILL IS FURTHER AWAY, THE GOLDEN DOOR, THE BEST OF A.A. GILL and the highly acclaimed memoir POUR ME. He died in 2016.

Reviews for AA Gill Is Away
His reporting here is spot-on: clear-eyed, informative and compassionate ... His work is always ... surprising, original, stimulating and, for that reason, always worth reading
Lynn Barber
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
It was when he was away that he was at his best ... His walkabouts around the world were driven by an insatiable curiosity to explore and acquaint himself with cultures he knew nothing about, to rejoice in the diversity of the extraordinary world we live in, and to use his writing as a tool for change ... If A. A. Gill is to be away for a while, we should all take up the baton he has left behind and make sure we are richer, not poorer, for his absence
Stephen Daldry 'In this collection of twenty-four accounts of trips abroad he comes across as both funny and compassionate'
DAILY EXPRESS
'Imagine Evelyn Waugh reborn as one of Nick Hornby's endearingly superficial protagonists, and you have London's Sunday Times television and restaurant critic Gill: droll, astute, irritable, irritating and always cleaver-sharp . . . it's his bald foreignness that makes him such a skilled marksman. That, and the fact that he himself is such an original'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'Sometimes shocking, usually smart, always entertaining'
KIRKUS REVIEWS

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