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left a comment on Chagford Revisitedalmost 4 years ago

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@unknown-user Two things inspired me to write the book. The first is my observation that many of my fellow Americans get their sense of what British culture is like from costume dramas they see on PBS Masterpiece Theater. I thought it would be funny if a fictional character moved to the UK with the expectation that they would find life to be the way it is on TV. Since Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, famously hated Americans, I also thought it would be funny if an American bought the house he wrote the novel in.

left a comment on Chagford Revisitedalmost 4 years ago

almost 4 years ago

Ayush, thanks for your kind comment! Two things inspired me to write the book. The first is my observation that many of my fellow Americans get their sense of what British culture is like from costume dramas they see on PBS Masterpiece Theater. I thought it would be funny if a fictional character moved to the UK with the expectation that they would find life to be the way it is on TV. Since Evelyn Waugh, author of Brideshead Revisited, famously hated Americans, I also thought it would be funny if an American bought the house he wrote the novel in.

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Chagford Revisited

Chuck Etheridge

Marker, an American Anglophile software engineer, has purchased the home Evelyn Waugh stayed in whil...

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Chuck Etheridge was as an actor, a convenience store clerk, a rent a poet, and a catalog copywriter before disappointing his parents and becoming a writer. His novels include Border Canto and The Desert After Rain, and his comic novel Chagford Revisited was just published in the UK.

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