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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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780007568918 ● Editora HarperCollins Publishers ● Publicado 2014 ● Carregável 6 vezes ● Moeda EUR ● ID 3239658 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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