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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James MeekPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.199kg ISBN: 9781788737753ISBN 10: 178873775 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 23 February 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsMeek listens hard ... His reportage ... demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont. --Financial Times Provocative and persuasive. --Herald Scotland A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist. --Stephen Bush, Guardian Meek is brilliant at focusing on a particular case to tell a bigger story. --Labour Briefing [Meek] explores the slow-moving processes behind the sudden shock of the Brexit vote by getting out and about in Britain, to look beyond London at the competing ideals that led to this culture clash - cosmopolitanism and urbane liberalism against a more traditional yearning for British sovereignty, its mythology and nostalgia. --Dan Hancox, National Meek listens hard ... His reportage ... demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont. - Financial Times Provocative and persuasive. - Herald Scotland A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist. - Stephen Bush, Guardian Meek is brilliant at focusing on a particular case to tell a bigger story. - Labour Briefing [Meek] explores the slow-moving processes behind the sudden shock of the Brexit vote by getting out and about in Britain, to look beyond London at the competing ideals that led to this culture clash - cosmopolitanism and urbane liberalism against a more traditional yearning for British sovereignty, its mythology and nostalgia. - Dan Hancox, National Clear-headed ... Meek has a canny ability to provide plausiable explanations for the motivations of many Leave voters. - Peace News Meek listens hard ... His reportage ... demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his wont. --Financial Times Provocative and persuasive. --Herald Scotland A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist. --Stephen Bush, Guardian Meek is brilliant at focusing on a particular case to tell a bigger story. --Labour Briefing [Meek] explores the slow-moving processes behind the sudden shock of the Brexit vote by getting out and about in Britain, to look beyond London at the competing ideals that led to this culture clash - cosmopolitanism and urbane liberalism against a more traditional yearning for British sovereignty, its mythology and nostalgia. --Dan Hancox, National Clear-headed ... Meek has a canny ability to provide plausiable explanations for the motivations of many Leave voters. --Peace News Author InformationJames Meek is a Contributing Editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of six novels, including The People’s Act of Love, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Ondaatje Prize; We Are Now Beginning Our Descent, which won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize; and The Heart Broke In, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. His previous non-fiction work, Private Island, won the 2016 Orwell Prize. In 2004 he was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year by the British Press Awards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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