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Reborn in the USA - An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home (Paperback)
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Reborn in the USA - An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home (Paperback)
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Loot Price R332
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in
Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett
traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went
from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool to
become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans
of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett's
signature pop culture flair and humor. Being a teenager isn't easy,
no matter where in the world you live or how much it does or
doesn't rain in your hometown. As an outsider-a private-schooled
Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool-Roger
Bennett wasn't winning any popu larity contests. But there was one
idea, or ideal, that burned bright in Roger's heart. That was
America- with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with
flipped collars who ate at McDonald's. When he embraced American
popular culture, the dull gray world he lived in turned to neon
teal-a color which had not even been invented in England yet. Intro
duced first through the gateway drug of The Love Boat, then to
Rolling Stone, the NFL, John Hughes movies, Run-DMC, and Tracy
Chapman, Roger embraced everything that would capture the
imagination of a teenager growing up Stateside. When he made a
real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the
summer, he got to visit the promised land. A month in Chicago, and
a life-changing night spent in the company of the Chicago Bears,
was the first hit of freedom, of independence, of the Roger Bennett
he knew he could be. (Re)Born in the USA captures the universality
of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come
from. Drenched in the culture of the late '80s and '90s from the UK
and the USA, and the heartfelt, hilarious sense of humor that has
made Roger Bennett so beloved by his listeners, here is both a
truly unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America
that the country needs right now.
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