Sarah Lyall
Auteur van The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British
Over de Auteur
Sarah Lyall, a writer at large for the New York Times, lived in London until 2013, when she moved back home to New York. She's still adjusting.
Fotografie: Author Photograph by Lisa Wolfe
Werken van Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall: The Anglo Files : A Field Guide to the British (Hardcover); 2008 Edition (1672) 4 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- c. 1963
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Phillips Exeter
Yale College - Beroepen
- journalist
foreign correspondent - Relaties
- McCrum, Robert (husband)
- Organisaties
- The New York Times (London correspondent)
- Agent
- Kathy Robbins
- Korte biografie
- Sarah Lyall grew up in New York City and is a London correspondent for the New York Times. She lives there with her husband, the writer Robert McCrum, and their two daughters.
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- 4
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- Populariteit
- #44,322
- Waardering
- 3.4
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- 29
- ISBNs
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This is the third full-length, nonfiction book I’ve read recently written by journalists, and I’ve firmly established that this genre is not for me. I may be alone in this, but like Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, it comes off as ten or twelve separate magazine articles united under one book heading. They’re wildly well-researched articles; she litters each chapter with numerous quotations from interviews and from newspapers domestic and international. Nevertheless, the chapters are strung together loosely, related only under the original proposal – what’s it like for an American to live long-term in London? One day I hope to be able to put my finger on it exactly; for now, I just know that I FEEL like other non-fiction books link their chapters, their sub-topics more cleanly, less choppily than these journalists’ books. She uses humor liberally and to good effect; she certainly made me laugh out loud more than once. Also, having lived with Brits for the five weeks leading up to reading this book, Lyall did describe a few situations that struck home for me, though the most memorable for me now is only the bit about how they hold their knives and their forks in the hands opposite of Americans. I’m very grateful I have met only one Brit who lived up to her descriptions of semi-alcoholism, and ultimately the situations she describes, including the Brits who take over pubs in Prague for stag nights and such, seem like the extreme end of things. But again, I’ve just lived with proud Brits whom I enjoyed very much. England’s love of hedgehogs, which I’d certainly never heard of before reading this book, makes an appearance before her long discussion of bad healthcare infrastructure in the realm of dentistry.
It’s a quick read, a fun read, but not set to win any major writing awards anytime soon, I imagine.… (meer)