James Meek

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

Fragments of a Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalist

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6954
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 148mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781788735230
• ISBN-10: 1788735234
• Artikelnr.: 53685792

Autorenporträt

James Meek is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of six novels that have published in the UK, US, France and Germany, including The People’s Act of Love, that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Ondaatje Prize and Scottish Arts Council Award. We Are Now Beginning our Descent won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize and The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. In 2004 he was named the Foreign Correspondent of the year by the British Press Awards and he contributes regularly to the Guardian, New York Times and International Herald Tribune. Website: www.jamesmeek.net

Rezensionen

Some of it will make you sad, some of it will make you furious, but you are guaranteed to be left feeling that you understand this country much better. John Lanchester, author of Capital and Whoops! [For Private Island]

Meek listens hard . His reportage . demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont. Financial Times