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|title=Across the Pond

|author=Terry Eagleton

|genre=Politics and Society

|rating=3.5

|publisher=W. W. Norton and Co

|date=February 2013

|summary=A look at life on both sides of the pond, this pits Brits against Yanks with interesting results.

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Terry Eagleton is a Brit (Manchester born, no less) who now lives in Dublin with his American wife and children, so he seems well placed to write a book about the difference between us and them, there Yanks. Mid way through the pages, he even stops to tell us that in a way he had to write this, because when he wishes to read a book, he writes it. To read someone else’s, he suggests, is ‘an unwarranted invasion of their personal space’. That’s how so very British he is.