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Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale
Chris Ayres
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Description for Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale
Paperback.
After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends celebrity tittle-tattle back home. Seduced by the apparently infinite wealth of LA, Ayres embarks on an ill-advised odyssey of self-gratification (in the name of research) and breaks first rule of foreign reporting: he goes native. Before long, he is an SUV-driving narcissist with a flat-screen TV in every room, eight pairs of designer flip-flops, a seven-digit overdraft, and a wife he met on the internet. As always, however, disaster looms. ... Read more
After a brief and undignified stint as a war correspondent, Chris Ayres is exiled by his newspaper to Hollywood, where he lives in a building called The Leisureplex and sends celebrity tittle-tattle back home. Seduced by the apparently infinite wealth of LA, Ayres embarks on an ill-advised odyssey of self-gratification (in the name of research) and breaks first rule of foreign reporting: he goes native. Before long, he is an SUV-driving narcissist with a flat-screen TV in every room, eight pairs of designer flip-flops, a seven-digit overdraft, and a wife he met on the internet. As always, however, disaster looms. ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
John Murray
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719560163
SKU
KNW0010416
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Chris Ayres
Chris Ayres, 29, is the west coast correspondent for The Times. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, grew up in the Scottish borders and was educated at the University of Hull and City University, London, before joining The Times in 1997. Ayres held the positions of media business correspondent and Wall Street correspondent, based in New York, before taking ... Read more
Reviews for Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale
'Ayres is beautifully self-deprecating, very funny and he's clearly a brilliant blagger, all of which makes for a diverting read' Daily Mail 'Part anthropological study of LA, part self-deprecating comic misadventure' Independent on Sunday 'A hilarious look at the excesses of LA life, with a sobering undercurrent' Daily Express 'Ayres' gaffes as a narcissistic wannabe are written with self-effacing wit' ... Read more