An Encyclopaedia of Myself [electronic resource]
Meades, Jonathan2014
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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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An Encyclopaedia of Myself [electronic resource] / Jonathan Meades
Author:
Meades, Jonathan, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Johnathan Meades is a British novellist and writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an innovative broadcaster. Perhaps best known for his television appearences on 'Abroad with Jonathan Meades' and its sequel series, Meades is also a succesful novellist. His previous books include The Illustrated Atlas of the World's Great Buildings (1980), Filthy English (1984), Architectural Expressions (2001), Incest and Morris Dancing (2002) and The Fowler Family Business (2002).
ISBN:
9780007568918
Language:
English
BRN:
2796089
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