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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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Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business – and several anthologies including the recently published Museum Without Walls, which was selected as a book of the year by seven critics. He has written and performed in more than 50 television shows on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs, and the architecture of Hitler and Stalin. Most recently ‘Concrete Poetry’, his films in praise of brutalist architectur, were shown on BBC4 in March 2014.Jonathan Meades contributed a weekly column about restaurants to The Times from 1986-2002. His memoir, An Encyclopaedia of Myself, will be published in May 2014.
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February 26th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
352
Dimensions
129x198x22
ISBN-13
9781857029055
Product ID
22233507

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