CLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions...For they will all remind you of people that you know!
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jilly CooperEAN: 9780552146623COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 189 gHEIGHT: 178 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Transworld Publishers LtdDATE PUBLISHED: 2005-05-02CITY: GENRE: HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic DisparityWIDTH: 106 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
Social classes, Humour
Witheringly funny, illuminated by astonishing brilliance, Enormously readable and very funny, Highly entertaining, acerbic and wickedly observant... certain to become as much part of the verbal shorthand as was Nancy Mitford's U and Non-U, a generation ago
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her rescue racing greyhound, Bluebell. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
CLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions...For they will all remind you of people that you know!
Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Jilly CooperEAN: 9780552146623COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 189 gHEIGHT: 178 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Transworld Publishers LtdDATE PUBLISHED: 2005-05-02CITY: GENRE: HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic DisparityWIDTH: 106 cmSPINE:
Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling novels, she lives in Gloucestershire with her rescue racing greyhound, Bluebell. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
