Foreigner Adrian Gill (a Scot) goes in search of the essence of
England and the English The English are naturally, congenitally,
collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the
incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid
eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their
tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They're incensed,
incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit
apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island,
nursing and picking at their irritations. Perhaps aware that
they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English
have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious
and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something
benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and
almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've
built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and
novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come
up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken
- just so there'll be no misunderstandings. In this hugely witty,
personal and readable book, A.A. Gill looks anger and the English
straight in the eye.
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