Another Fine Mess, Tim Moore
Another Fine Mess, Tim Moore
List: $12.38 | Sale: $8.67
Club: $6.19

Another Fine Mess

Author: Tim Moore

Narrator: Tim Moore

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/08/2018

Synopsis

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Another Fine Mess, written and read by Tim Moore.

Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way.

He meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in conflict with itself: citizens ‘tooling up’ in reaction to ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all but forgotten by the warring media and political classes.

With his trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road trip through Trump’s America. Buckle up!

About Tim Moore

Tim Moore’s writing has appeared in Esquire and London’s Daily Telegraph, Observer, and Sunday Times. He is the author of French Revolutions and several other books. He lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on February 01, 2019

Tim Moore could write a travelogue about spending an afternoon in an empty IKEA in Milton Keynes and make it riotously entertaining. Over the last two decades, he has established himself as one of the quirkiest, funniest – and perhaps masochistic - travel writers around. For his latest wheeze, Moore......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on February 27, 2021

enjoyed this book the author travels in a model T ford coast to coast in the aftermath of Trump 2016 election victory , in parts funny.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on March 12, 2019

Tim Moore is one of my very favourite travel authors. His books are outlandish and enchanting, as he voyages near and far in the quirkiest of manners, whether riding the route of the Tour de France on a vintage bicycle or walking the Camino with a donkey or... just wandering around his hometown of L......more

Goodreads review by Basti on March 27, 2020

So... That was a disappointment. Another Fine Mess, if you will. After reading "Sag dem Abenteuer, ich komme" by Lea Rieck, I fell into a hole of buying all traveling books I could get my hands on. And this one might be a mistake. Maybe I made a mistake by expecting something similar to the aforemen......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on December 02, 2020

Not a book I would have picked for myself but I received it as a gift. Turned out to be a great read with portions that were laugh out loud funny. Very well written with loads of interesting history about Henry Ford's life and his rise to fame and fortune. Throughout the book, the author, who is vis......more

Quotes

An easy and enjoyable read, it’s as much about the roadtrip in a vintage car as it is observations on the current political climate in America Classic Ford

Moore… [is] very good at soaking up the strangeness of America and relating it to readers with an easy-going observational humour that only threatens to desert him when he contemplates the excesses of the current administration The Herald

Hilarious and scary often in equal measure Daily Express

This is The Wizard of Oz in reverse – an attempt to uncover the source of what went wrong in America… What lingers is the stories of communities brimming with people who worked like dogs to learn a trade in a country they believed would reward them Big Issue

Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative Daily Mail

In the vein of Bill Bryson, this funny travelogue is as much a history of Henry Ford as a commentary on modern America Eastern Daily Press

Entertaining: coming yet also rather thought-provoking Classic Car Weekly

Fascinating, and very funny with it Octane

Another Fine Mess is an early contender for the best road-trip book of the year – if not travel book… an absorbing, funny and heartwarming tale Classic & Sports Car

Moore has written some very funny books… Another Fine Mess is his most sombre. The jokes are still plentiful but he also write affectingly about a part of post-industrial America in its death throes Times Literary Supplement

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List