An Encyclopaedia of Myself by Meades, Jonathan - 2014-05-08

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. (Stated).* Date of Publication: 2015* Publisher: 4th. Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Black & white photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a montage of snapshots. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, none to hinge. Seems un-used. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos at frontis and several within text throughout.* Pages: 341 pp. text. iii pp. illustrations list & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- '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.* This is a FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults AS NEW.*