Alan Brien
Alan Brien
Alan Brienwas an English journalist best known for his novel Lenin. This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
home winning sight
You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.
new-york food cities
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.
country fashion neat-and-tidy
The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.
country agreement special
When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
done doe drainage
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.