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Pompey
A Novel|
10,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Unbound Digital |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 07.11.2013 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781783520213 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 480 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>At first glance, Jonathan Meades's 1993 masterpiece is a post-war family saga set in and around the city of Portsmouth. This doesn't come close to communicating the scabrous magnificence of Meades's creation.</p>
<p><i>Pompey</i> is an obscene, suppurating vision of an England in terminal decline. The story begins with Guy Vallender, a fireworks manufacturer from Portsmouth, who has four children by different four different women. There's Poor Eddie, a feeble geek with a gift for healing; 'Mad Bantu', the son of a black prostitute, who was hopelessly damaged in the womb by an attempted abortion; Bonnie, who is born beautiful but becomes a junkie and a porn star; and finally Jean-Marie, a leather-wearing gay gerontophiliac conceived on a one-night stand in Belgium. </p>
<p>The narrator is 'Jonathan Meades', cousin to Poor Eddie and Bonnie, who tells the story of how their strange and poisonous destinies intersect. And although there is no richer stew of perversity, voyeurism, corruption, religious extremism and curdled celebrity in all of English literature, there is also an underlying compassion and a jet-black humour which makes <i>Pompey</i> an important and strangely satisfying work of art. Prepare to enter the English novel's darkest ride…</p>
<p><i>Pompey</i> is an obscene, suppurating vision of an England in terminal decline. The story begins with Guy Vallender, a fireworks manufacturer from Portsmouth, who has four children by different four different women. There's Poor Eddie, a feeble geek with a gift for healing; 'Mad Bantu', the son of a black prostitute, who was hopelessly damaged in the womb by an attempted abortion; Bonnie, who is born beautiful but becomes a junkie and a porn star; and finally Jean-Marie, a leather-wearing gay gerontophiliac conceived on a one-night stand in Belgium. </p>
<p>The narrator is 'Jonathan Meades', cousin to Poor Eddie and Bonnie, who tells the story of how their strange and poisonous destinies intersect. And although there is no richer stew of perversity, voyeurism, corruption, religious extremism and curdled celebrity in all of English literature, there is also an underlying compassion and a jet-black humour which makes <i>Pompey</i> an important and strangely satisfying work of art. Prepare to enter the English novel's darkest ride…</p>
A paperback reissue of Jonathan Meades’s savage masterpiece
A paperback reissue of Jonathan Meades’s savage masterpiece
<p>Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. He is the author of <i>Filthy English</i>, <i>Peter Knows What Dick Likes</i>, <i>The Fowler Family Business</i>, <i>Museum Without Walls</i> and <i>Pompey</i>. In 2014, he published the first volume of his autobiography, <i>An Encyclopaedia of Myself</i>.</p>
<p>His many films for the BBC include <i>Abroad in Britain</i>, <i>Meades Eats</i>, <i>Meades on France</i> and, most recently, <i>The Joy of Essex </i>and<i> Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness Concrete Poetry</i>.</p>
<p>His many films for the BBC include <i>Abroad in Britain</i>, <i>Meades Eats</i>, <i>Meades on France</i> and, most recently, <i>The Joy of Essex </i>and<i> Bunkers, Brutalism and Bloodymindedness Concrete Poetry</i>.</p>
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<li>Jonathan Meades is the widely acclaimed author of <i>Museum Without Walls </i>(20k copies), <i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen</i> and <i>An Encyclopaedia of Myself</i> – described as 'a masterpiece' by the <i>Financial Times</i>, and shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize<i> </i>– among many others.</li>
<li>His numerous films for the BBC are legendary, covering a vast range of subjects from jargon to the architecture of Fascism.</li>
<li><i>Pompey</i> is being reissued along with two other Meades backlist titles – M<i>useum Without Walls </i>and <i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen </i>– to mark the release of <i>Pedro and Ricky Come Again</i>, a new collection of the best of Meades's writing from the past thirty years. </li>
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<li>Jonathan Meades is the widely acclaimed author of <i>Museum Without Walls </i>(20k copies), <i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen</i> and <i>An Encyclopaedia of Myself</i> – described as 'a masterpiece' by the <i>Financial Times</i>, and shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize<i> </i>– among many others.</li>
<li>His numerous films for the BBC are legendary, covering a vast range of subjects from jargon to the architecture of Fascism.</li>
<li><i>Pompey</i> is being reissued along with two other Meades backlist titles – M<i>useum Without Walls </i>and <i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen </i>– to mark the release of <i>Pedro and Ricky Come Again</i>, a new collection of the best of Meades's writing from the past thirty years. </li>
</ul>
'He has done for Portsmouth (Portsmouth, for heaven's sake) what Baudelaire did for Paris, Joyce for Dublin and Paul Bowles for Tangier . . . One of the very best and most absurdly underrated novels of the nineties'
<b><i></i>Stephen Fry<i></i></b>
<b><i></i>Stephen Fry<i></i></b>
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