Collects stories of human misfortune since the dawn of the universe, showing why everything that can go wrong, does. This book demonstrates that the entire universe is actually set up to ensure your toast always fall butter side down - and, what's more, that it lands precisely where the cat has shed hair all over the carpet.
Klappentext
To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod's Law says: you are not alone. Sam Leith tells the hilarious--and painful--stories of the unsinkable boat that sunk, the unbeatable horse that lost, and the fireproof theater that burned to the ground. Sod's Law demonstrates that the entire universe is actually set up to ensure that your toast always lands butter side down and, what's more, that it lands precisely where the cat has shed hair all over the carpet. In this age of doubt, fewer and fewer of us are able to believe that a higher power takes an interest in our fate. This book reassures us that indeed it does--and that that higher power is hell bent on buggering things up. Only by laughing heartlessly at the misfortunes of others can we make ourselves feel better. Sod's Law enables us to do just that.
Biografie
Sam Leith, geboren 1974, studierte in Eton und am Magdalen College in Oxford. Nach Ende seines Studiums schrieb er für das britische Satiremagazin Punch, bevor er als Feuilletonredakteur zur Daily Mail und dem Daily Telegraph wechselte. Heute veröffentlicht er seine Artikel in diversen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal und The Guardian. Er hat außerdem eine Kolumne im Evening Standard. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in London.
