An Encyclopaedia of Myself
On Sale: 02/26/2015
An Encyclopaedia of Myself
On Sale: 02/26/2015
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About the Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014
‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial Times
The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury had two industries: God and the Cold War. For the child, delight is to be found everywhere – in the intense observation of adult frailties, in landscapes and prepubescent sex, in calligraphy and in rivers.
This memoir is an engrossing portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9781857029055
- ISBN 10: 1857029054
- Imprint: Fourth Estate
- On Sale: 02/26/2015
- Pages: 352
- List Price:17.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BISAC2 : HISTORY / Social History
- BISAC3 : POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
- BISAC4 : HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century
- BISAC5 : HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
