POMPEY. - Hardcover

Meades, Jonathan.

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224032933 ISBN 13: 9780224032933

Publisher: CAPE. LONDON 1993, 1993

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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Cape 1993. 472pp. Very thick Royal 8vo. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. In good gilt lettered black cloth bumped to head of spine, together with very good original unclipped dustwrapper. Writer and presenter of the brilliant architectural TV series, Meades' writing is 'enticingly repellent' and 'viciously inventinve'. Observer

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About the Author:

Jonathan Meades is the author of Filthy English, Peter Knows What Dick Likes and The Fowler Family Business. He has written and performed in some twenty-five TV films on such subjects as the utopian avoidance of right angles, vertigo's lure, beer and Birmingham's appeal. Jonathan Meades contributed a weekly column about restaurants to The Times from 1986-2002.

Review:

* 'An extraordinary work, peopled by the repellent, dwelling on the vile and yet done with so deft and brilliant a touch: a picnic in the heart of darkness. The writing is clever and complex, multi-layered and funny ... What a dark pleasure it is to come across writing that is both luminous and bilious.' Susan Jeffreys, New Statesman * 'The English novel needs its senses to be violently deranged, and this piledriver of a book ... might just provide a kick-start.' Elizabeth Young, Independent on Sunday * 'One admires the virtuosity, the creative nerve that enabled Meades to boldly go where few writers would dare.' Andrew Clements, Financial Times * 'There is no doubt that Pompey is the product of a brilliant mind: one would not, however, wish to dine with its author." Nick Hornby, TLS * 'A brilliant blockbuster," Melvyn Bragg, Start the Week * 'If Meades was a racehorse you'd be calling for a steward's enquiry. There's something in his feed which definitely gives him the lot.' Iain Sinclair * 'Disgusting and brilliant ... written with relentless energy and rhythm, phrase after phrase of this novel is 'highly crafted'.' Paul Spike, Vogue * 'With its mutilations, voyeurism, in-jokes, phantasmagoric idiolect and cruel humour, this is a harrowing and quite extraordinary book. It is lurid and ingenious ... but so perverse you get to love it.' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph

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