{"product_id":"across-the-pond-9780393349405","title":"Across the Pond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn irreverent trip through American culture by a critic who “cracks jokes as easily as one would crack walnut shells” (\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"[Eagleton is] clearly a writer who enjoys being a provocateur: there’s something to argue with on pretty much every page of \u003cem\u003eAcross the Pond\u003c\/em\u003e, and usually something downright hilarious, too. Great stuff…Terry Eagleton is a funny man.\" -- Geoff Nicholson - Los Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"His mode is that of a jocular anthropologist, pint in hand, chattily offering up his opinions.\" -- David Wolf - The New Republic","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401997394263,"sku":"9780393349405","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393349405.jpg?v=1730479086","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/across-the-pond-9780393349405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}