Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

"Travel essay, family memoir, or social history . . . its uncertainty is part of its charm . . . His descriptions recall Kingsley Amis at his best . . . Chapman's account of his family's ingrained melancholy, martial betrayals, and tragic decline is graceful and funny." --The Boston Globe

"Compulsively readable, surprisingly touching, and often downright funny." --Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review

"Funny, irreverent, profound, moving, instructive, and entertaining. How I wish that I had written this book." --Peter Coyote, author of Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

"This book is not just a sneer at freak-show America. Chapman is too aware of his own foibles and failures to curl his lip . . . Hilarious . . . uncomfortable . . . it's also life-affirming, even if life as lived by Chapman is often damnably itchy." --Nigel Richardson, The Daily Telegraph

"A humorous, even funny, memoir of 'de-evolution.' In his insightful, confessional, and intimately human voice, Matthew Chapman reads like he's right there talking to you. My kind of book." --Spalding Gray

"As the monkey of the title, Mr. Chapman tells the story of a family tree 'hopping with regression' . . . A valuable, painfully honest memoir of what it means to be British in the past half century." --The Wall Street Journal

"Trials of the Monkey: An Accidental Memoir is candid, confessional, raunchy, and learned--not four words usually used in the same sentence to describe a work of nonfiction. It is certain to offend some readers, while other readers are just as certain to laugh out loud with glee . . . It is not only an accidental memoir, as the subtitle says. it is also an accidental classic." --The Kansas City Star