The Anglophile

by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Book Overview

The Anglophile by Laurie Gwen Shapiro released on Jul 26, 2005 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373895291
• ISBN13: 9780373895298
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Red Dress Ink
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Brit love

I agree with another previous reviewer. If you love all things British, then you will like this book. I have read it about three times only because I am an Anglophile myself. The main female character, I believe dreams of meeting a typical British guy, and she finally does meet one and goes all ga-ga over him despite being involved with another guy (a nice Jewish one with perfect teeth). However, she finds the British guy too hot to resist, but then she finds out that he is her competitor for research information that deals with her PhD. This only deters her momentarily from him, but his appeal out weights all of this. It must be the accent, I know that would do it for me. It is a very cute story with some silly moments, but like I said if you are an Anglophile, like myself, and can imagine yourself traipsing through England with the sexy accent of a British guy then you have found your book.

Brit Love

I agree with another previous reviewer. If you love all things British, then you will like this book. I have read it about three times only because I am an Anglophile myself. The main female character, I believe dreams of meeting a typical British guy, and she finally does meet one and goes all ga-ga over him despite being involved with another guy (a nice Jewish one with perfect teeth). However, she finds the British guy too hot to resist, but then she finds out that he is her competitor for research information that deals with her PhD. This only deters her momentarily from him, but his appeal out weights all of this. It must be the accent, I know that would do it for me. It is a very cute story with some silly moments, but like I said if you are an Anglophile, like myself, and can imagine yourself traipsing through England with the sexy accent of a British guy then you have found your book.

So incredibly good.

This book was so good. Being an Anglophile myself the title intriguied me. I bought and read it cover to cover. I just couldn't put it down.

Funny and charming

The Anglohile is about Shari Diamond, a 35-year-old Jewish grad student at NYU, who is getting her PhD in lingustics and loves everything English. She is studying an old language which only has one known speaker left., and this book follows her trials professionally and personally. The book opens with Shari meeting a handsome Brit, Kit, on a tour of the Sears tower. However, Kit is a rival linguist studying the same lost language as she, and she also must deal with pursuing this new interest and a stagnant relationship she is already in. The book is much like Shapiro's "The Unexpected Salami", in that much of it takes place in NY as Kit meets Shari's odd and quirky family, and the two travel to England together to find the last speaker of the lost language they are studying. It also turns out that Kit has a connection to this person, and there is more to his story than he has let on. A childhood friend and fellow academic, Owen, also emerges to compete for Shari's affections, and complicates her life further. The book is overall very enjoyable, and Shapiro is a smart and funny writer. It is also refreshing to see a female protaganist who isn't the typical 25-year-old, weight-obsessed girl who works in publishing. Shari is smart, wise, and mostly comfortable with herself. The book jumps ahead in time abruptly, and the ending feels a bit too quick (things don't seem to get resolved with enough explanation) but it is an fun, enjoyable read overall.

fine chick lit tale

Thirty-five years old Shari Diamond has been fascinated with Anglo-Saxon history since she met Christopher Robin as a kid when he starred in her copies of the Winnie classics. Studying for her PhD in dead languages at NYU, Shari searches for the last known person alive who speaks Volupuk as she has for several years. In Chicago to give a talk on Volupuk, she meets British bloke Christopher "Kit" Brown, who makes her forget her boyfriend back home Kevin Bernstein. However, to her shock, Kit is studying Volupuk and insists the last user lives near York. Ignoring Kevin's concerns, Shari rushes to England where she meets a boy from her past, but neither Owen nor Kevin hold a candle to Kit until she learns in a garden his secret connection to the last speaker of Volupuk in the world. Besides highlighting the rapid loss of languages as the world grows smaller through modern day communications, THE ANGLOPHILE is a fine chick lit tale starring a dynamic heroine, her Jewish New York stereotyped mother and the men in her life. The story line focuses on the rivalry between Kit and Shari in search of the last known user of a shortly to be extinct language. When that is gone, like many languages which are oral only, cultures die. The romance is an 18 carat diamond that includes the efforts of Kevin and Owen to compete with Kit for Shari's heart, but it is the language that steals the show though that plays a minor role in this fine thought provoking tale. Harriet Klausner