How Not to Be American: Misadventures in the Land of the Free - Softcover

McEwen, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781312354 ISBN 13: 9781781312353

Publisher: Aurum Press, 2013

Synopsis

'This new American uniform - the baseball cap, t-shirt, shorts and trainers (why not a scooter?) is not about looking good. It's about disappearing into a new, unofficial, global army of cultural babies. It says: I eat hamburgers and watch TV and chew gum all day, I want everyone to play my game, You have to be nice to me and if you're not I'm gonna shoot you, I can't understand a word you say... and what is that but American foreign policy?' Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it's still driving him crazy. He worries about cheeseburgers, Cary Grant, Henry David Thoreau, democracy, the Elks Club and Daffy Duck. Join him on his acid-reflux examination of what America has come to be.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it’s still driving him crazy.

About the Author:

TODD McEWEN was born in California and burnished in New York. His previous novels include McX: A Romance of the Dour, Who Sleeps with Katz and, most recently, The Five Simple Machines. Long a resident of Edinburgh, he cannot think what is to be done.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781312354
• ISBN 13: 9781781312353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240