Everyone knows we're a nation obsessed with runners-up and
near-missers, that we find failure heroic and success boring, if not
downright rude. In this hilarious, fact-packed and up-to-date
compendium, vintage losers such as Ethelred 'the Unready' and Eddie
'The Eagle' Edwards jostle with newcomers on the failure scene like
Sir Fred Goodwin, who blithely steered RBS into the distinctly
unwelcoming arms of the British tax-payer. Alongside these stellar
losers are many lesser-known gems of national inadequacy, such as the
actor Robert Coates, who was so bad that in 1816 several audience
members injured themselves laughing -- during a performance of Rowe's
death-filled tragedy The Fair Penitent. Great British Losers is a book
for the twisted patriot that lurks inside us all. It'll make you
laugh, and perhaps even cry -- at least with rage. In the end, it may
even make you proud to be British. Well, kind of...
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ISBN
9781906964863
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Old Street Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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