A Load of Bull: An Englishman's Adventures In Madrid (Paperback)
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Short Description for A Load of Bull In the late 80's, Tim Parfitt blagged his way into a job at Conde Nast in London and, from there, into a six week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue. Six weeks turned into nine years, and helping out turned into running the company. Along the way, Tim Parfitt discovered the real 'real' Spain.
Full description- Publisher: MACMILLAN
- Published: 07 July 2006
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781405046190 ISBN 10: 1405046198
- Sales rank: 1,137,799
Full description for A Load of Bull
"A Load Of Bull" is the hilarious, true story of an Englishman finding his way in one of the most perplexing, anarchic and exuberant cities on earth: Madrid. In the late 80's, Tim Parfitt blagged his way into a job at Conde Nast in London and, from there, into a six week stint in Madrid to help launch Spanish Vogue. Six weeks turned into nine years, and helping out turned into running the company. Along the way, Tim Parfitt discovered the real 'real' Spain. He never saw a Costa and he certainly never bought an olive grove. Instead, he discovered a booming city in hedonistic reaction to years of facism, where sleep was something you only did at work and where five hour lunches invariably involved a course of bull's testicles. Tim Parfitt's rise from unwanted guest to paparazzi pursued mover in Spain's glamorous social scene is a hilarious comedy of errors.Frothing with a language designed to make foreigners dribble, hospitalized by tapa induced flatulence, and constantly frustrated by the unapproachable beauty of the women parading through the Vogue offices, he nevertheless falls in love with a city, a country and its people - despite the fact he hasn't a clue what they're on about, or why he's really there in the first place.
