Oh To Be In England Author:David Pinner A dark comedy examining what it means to live in an ex-empire in economic free-fall, and the political and personal extremism that results when all other belief is lost. A middle-aged Englishman, bred to believe in his innate — superiority as a birthright of class, race, and gender, loses his job in the City, left to flounder impotently in the wo... more »rld.« less