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- To America with love / by Gill, A. A.,1954-2016.(CARDINAL)640056;
Cuttings -- "Stupid" -- Harvest -- The sublime -- Guns -- Speeches -- Sparks -- Skyscrapers -- Stories -- Sex -- Loneliness -- Philanthropy -- Germans -- Evolution -- Moonshine -- Movies -- New York -- Pie in the sky."Celebrated British provocateur and Vanity Fair columnist A. A. Gill traverses the Atlantic to become the freshest chronicler of American identity in recent memory. With a fiery temper, a sharp-tongued wit, and an insatiable curiosity to figure out what makes more than 300 million of the world's population tick, Gill traces the history and logic of our nation's habits, collecting wild stories and startling facts along the way. From Colorado, where he meets a local vegetation expert and learns which flowers were in Pocahontas' nuptial bouquet, to Kentucky, where he visits the Creationist Museum and drinks moonshine with a hog farmer, and to Harlem, where he misses a turn and stumbles into the wrong barber shop for a once-in-a-lifetime haircut, Gill embarks on a tour not only of the nation's landscape but also its psyche, playing adventurer, philosopher, statistician, and raconteur all at once. In inimitable fashion, he explains why pressing a button in a Manhattan elevator means entering a social contract of American etiquette and inverting conventional hierarchies of space; why browsing through Playboy centerfolds becomes the perfect litmus test for a generation's political views; and how Hollywood is the metaphysical marketplace for movies, the place where Americans are sold on American romance and taught how to dream the American dream. Weaving together a tapestry of historical erudition and outrageous anecdotes, Gill ultimately captures the scope and spirit of a nation that started off as a conceptual experiment and became a political, scientific, and cultural fortress. This humorous and revelatory book shows us why we are who we are, transforming ordinary experiences into extraordinary lessons and promising to never let us look in the mirror in the same way again"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Gill, A. A., 1954-2016;
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- Pour me a life / by Gill, A. A.,1954-2016,author.(CARDINAL)640056;
"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, journalist Adrian Gill writes about his near-fatal alcoholism in this extraordinary lucid memoir. By his early twenties, at London's prestigious Saint Martin's art school, Gill was entrenched in his addiction. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that "were like tiny crime scenes," helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Throughout his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too damaged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center--then a rare and revolutionary concept in England--and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind"--- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Gill, A. A., 1954-2016; Alcoholics; Alcoholics; Journalists;
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- The best American travel writing 2014 / by Theroux, Paul,editor.; Batuman, Elif,1997-; Cooke, Julie.; Corbett, Sara.; Di Giovanni, Janine,1961-; Gill, A. A.,1954-2016.; Grunberg, Arnon.; Key, Harrison Scott.; LaSalle, Peter.; Lindhout, Amanda.; McCarthy, Andrew,1962-; Paterniti, Michael.; Pearson, Stephanie,1970-; Perrottet, Tony.; Power, Matthew,1974-2014.; Rinella, Steven.; Sedaris, David.; Selgin, Peter.; Shacochis, Bob.; Shoumatoff, Alex.; Shteyngart, Gary,1972-; Swick, Thomas.; Symmes, Patrick,1964-; Tayler, Jeffrey.; Whitehead, Colson,1969-; Wilsey, Sean.;
Presents an anthology of the best travel writing published in 2014, selected from magazines, newspapers, and web sites.- Subjects: Travelers' writings, American.; Voyages and travels.;
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