You Are Awful (But I Like You) by Tim Moore
It began with an accidental daytrip to an intriguingly awful resort on the Thames Estuary, and ended 3,812 miles later: one man's journey through deep-fried, brownfield, poundshop Britain, a crash course in urban blight, deranged civic planning and commercial eccentricity. Following an itinerary drawn up from surveys, polls, reviews and lazy personal prejudice, Tim Moore goes to all the places that nobody wants to go to - the bleakest towns, the shonkiest hotels, the scariest pubs, the silliest sea zoos. He visits the grid reference adjudged by the Ordnance Survey to be the least interesting point in Britain, and is chased out of the new town twice crowned Scotland's Most Dismal Place. His palate is flayed alive by horrific regional foodstuffs, his ears shrivelled by the 358 least loved tracks in the history of native popular music. With his progress entrusted to our motor industry's fittingly hopeless finale, he comes to learn that Britain seems very much larger when you're driving around it in a Bulgarian-built Austin Maestro. Yet as the soggy, decrepit quest unfolds, so it evolves into something much more stirring: a nostalgic celebration of our magnificent mercantile pomp, and an angry requiem for a golden age of cheerily homespun crap culture being swept aside by the faceless, soul-stripping forces of Tesco-town globalisation.
Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he in fact a writer of considerably more substance* Irish Times *
He is a rare comic talent. * The Times *
Moore is a talented and very funny writer. * Daily Telegraph *
Tim Moore’s sharp and witty book…is a pilgrimage to the most derelict, unlovable and forlorn parts of Britain. -- Jonathan Sale * Independent *
A hymn to things lost; a nostalgic appreciation of the days before Tesco Extra and the universal flood of modern bland… At his best, there aren’t many travel writers funnier that Tim Moore. -- Daniel Hahn * Independent on Sunday *
He is a rare comic talent. * The Times *
Moore is a talented and very funny writer. * Daily Telegraph *
Tim Moore’s sharp and witty book…is a pilgrimage to the most derelict, unlovable and forlorn parts of Britain. -- Jonathan Sale * Independent *
A hymn to things lost; a nostalgic appreciation of the days before Tesco Extra and the universal flood of modern bland… At his best, there aren’t many travel writers funnier that Tim Moore. -- Daniel Hahn * Independent on Sunday *
Tim Moore's books include French Revolutions, Do Not Pass Go, Spanish Steps and Nul Points and I Believe in Yesterday. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224090117 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224090119 |
| Title | You Are Awful (But I Like You) |
| Author | Tim Moore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-02-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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