Aa gill biography
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Far and Away by A.A. Gill
ISBN: 9781474617376
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in lika measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page. This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from nära and far.
He was ferociously well travelled, and once wrote that for all our ability to cross the world at will, ‘abroad fryst vatten as utländsk and funny and strange and shocking as it ever was, and our need to know our neighbours every bit as great’. This is a book about meeting those neighbours. Wherever he was – in London or the öken, Benidorm or Beirut, with the glitterati in St Tropez or the nightclubs of Moscow, in the ruins of earthquake-struck Haiti or in a camp with the displaced Rohingya, he had the ability to knapp down the heart of a story and render it unforgettable.
He was a peerless writer about food, and so we also get to j
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Pour Me a Life
Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death.
"Pour Me a Life is an unapologetically honest, raw, and often harrowing account of the life of a man who, up until now, we only thought we knew. Here is A.A. Gill at his best. A real-life Bright Lights, Big City." --Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin, and author of the New York Timesbestseller 32 Yolks
Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting memoir of the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments in art, food, religion, and family that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death.
By his early twenties, at London's p
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A. A. Gill
British writer and critic (1954–2016)
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| Born | Adrian Anthony Gill (1954-06-28)28 June 1954 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 10 December 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 62) Hammersmith, London, England |
| Occupation | Columnist, author |
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| Partner | Nicola Formby (1995–2016; his death) |
| Children | 4 |
Adrian Anthony Gill (28 June 1954 – 10 December 2016) was a British journalist, critic, and author. Best known for his food and travel writing, he was also a television critic, was restaurant reviewer of The Sunday Times, wrote for Vanity Fair, GQ, and Esquire, and published numerous books.
After failing to establish himself as an artist, Gill wrote his first piece for Tatler in 1991 and joined The Sunday Times in