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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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| 828.9207 RIF My week / | 828.9208 BEA It's a don's life | 828.9208 PHI The Virgin Mary's got nits: a Christmas anthology | 828.9209 An encyclopaedia of myself | 828.9209 BUR Twelve words for moss / | 828.9209 COX Notebook / | 828.9209 DAV Happy old me : |
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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