People Like Us: A Season Among the Upper Classes

by Charles Jennings

What is it like to live the wonderful life? In People Like Us, Charles Jennings is the suburban outsider trying to make sense of the closed, privileged, self-indulgent world of being born and raised in another way of life. From the great social functions of the Season, to private parties in Kensington, to almost anything to do with horses, People Like Us is fascinating, appalling, argumentative, mocking, envious, and wickedly funny.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology

218 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

Reviews

[Rgusterman · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy read - albeit rather dated - written over 20 years ago. A Louis Theroux esque look into the upper classes - except the author here wishes he was one of them....

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't remember when I scorched a book like I did here, so great, so many underlines. This probably couldn't exist without the Sloane Ranger Handbook, but it's what I hoped that would be. Chuck's similes are to die for, and I would think this would be a solid 4star for anybody interested in the UK or new vocab words, throw in being from the midwest (USA), actually working with pinkie rings and OEs (Old Etonians) on Sloane Street, and wow it all comes home.