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Book SynopsisAn irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (
Washington Post).
Trade Review"Incisive and honest… Eagleton’s contribution to the persistent subgenre of Toquevillian analysis: the European curmudgeon’s critical, ultimately appreciative and, in Eagleton’s case, loving guide to the wacky Yanks and their nation." -- Michael Washburn - Boston Globe
"[Eagleton is] clearly a writer who enjoys being a provocateur: there’s something to argue with on pretty much every page of
Across the Pond, and usually something downright hilarious, too. Great stuff…Terry Eagleton is a funny man." -- Geoff Nicholson - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Terry Eagleton has a gift for the kind of generalizations that at first appear outrageous but seem, on reflection, annoyingly perceptive. Were I one of the expressive Americans he describes, I’d call this book awesome; as a constipated Brit, I’m inclined to say that it is not at all bad." -- Henry Hitchings, author, The Secret Life of Words
"His mode is that of a jocular anthropologist, pint in hand, chattily offering up his opinions." -- David Wolf - The New Republic
