Lament of an Expat

How I Discovered America and Tried to Mend It.

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Leonora Burton ISBN: 9781481733694
Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication: April 10, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse Language: English
Author: Leonora Burton
ISBN: 9781481733694
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication: April 10, 2013
Imprint: AuthorHouse
Language: English

Lament of an Expat is the witty, sometimes bemused, chronicle of an expats plunge into American culture, with its love of the gun and the sacred dollar, with its rigid constitution and singular laws and with the kindness, generosity and humanity of ordinary Americans. She describes encounters with the Mafia, a plane crash, Robert Redford, a Madam and a call girl from her home town in Wales, a famous author so drunk he couldnt talk, a cardboard funeral casket, Richard Nixon and a Caribbean wedding that was supposed to exclude God but didnt. One of her twin boys lives in New York City, she writes, while the other is in London, maintaining her connection with the U.K. Along the way, she makes a foe of Roger Ailes, top earner for Rupert Murdochs media empire, and loves every minute of the dispute which continues with this book.

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Lament of an Expat is the witty, sometimes bemused, chronicle of an expats plunge into American culture, with its love of the gun and the sacred dollar, with its rigid constitution and singular laws and with the kindness, generosity and humanity of ordinary Americans. She describes encounters with the Mafia, a plane crash, Robert Redford, a Madam and a call girl from her home town in Wales, a famous author so drunk he couldnt talk, a cardboard funeral casket, Richard Nixon and a Caribbean wedding that was supposed to exclude God but didnt. One of her twin boys lives in New York City, she writes, while the other is in London, maintaining her connection with the U.K. Along the way, she makes a foe of Roger Ailes, top earner for Rupert Murdochs media empire, and loves every minute of the dispute which continues with this book.

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