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An encyclopaedia of myself
by Meades, Jonathan.
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BookPublisher: Fourth Estate 2014ISBN: 9781857028492; 185702849X.Classification number: 828.9209 MEASubject(s): Meades | Authors, English -- 20th century -- BiographySubject: The fifties are not grey, not in Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir, where they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, reckless bohos, pompous boors, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury, where he was brought up, had two industries: God and the Cold War, both of which provided a cast of adults for the child to scrutinise with wonder and fear.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 828.9209 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ordered | ||||
| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 828.9209 MEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002855930X |
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| 828.9209 HAR Staring at lakes: a memoir of love, melancholy and magical thinking | 828.9209 LIT Dear world, how are you? / | 828.9209 MAN Mantel pieces : royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / | 828.9209 MEA An encyclopaedia of myself | 828.9209 MOR Moranifesto / | 828.9209 TOW The public confessions of a middle-aged woman | 829.3 BEO Beowulf |
The fifties are not grey, not in Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir, where they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, reckless bohos, pompous boors, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury, where he was brought up, had two industries: God and the Cold War, both of which provided a cast of adults for the child to scrutinise with wonder and fear.
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