Uncle Dysfunctional: Uncompromising Answers to Life's Most Painful Problems

by A. A. Gill, Gerald Scarfe (Illustrator), Alex Bilmes (Editor)

Overview

From 2011 up until his death at the end of 2016, the inimitable AA Gill reigned supreme as Uncle Dysfunctional, Esquire 's resident advice columnist. In this raffish, hilarious, scathing yet often surprisingly humane collection, Gill applies his unmatched wit to the largest and smallest issues of our time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786891839
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

AA Gill was born in Edinburgh. He was the TV and restaurant critic for the Sunday Times , a columnist for Esquire , Vanity Fair , and other publications, and wrote numerous books. He died in 2016.

Alex Bilmes is editor-in-chief of Esquire.

Editorial Reviews

Uncle Dysfunctional is worldly, all-knowing utterly hilarious and absolutely the last fucking person I'd go to for advice about anything

GILES COREN

The king of irreverent critics

LIONEL BARBER

He never once produced a boring sentence or a phrase that did not shine

JOHN WITHEROW

Read, wince . . . laugh until you rupture yourself

WILL SELF

He was the best writer. Nobody even came close

INDIA KNIGHT

A giant among journalists . . . His wit was incomparable, his writing was dazzling and fearless, his intelligence was matched by compassion

MARTIN IVENS

Gill is a wit and a charmer. Even when he's wrong, he's superbly full of himself

LYNN BARBER