Down and Out Today : Notes from the Gutter

Matthew Small

ISBN 10: 1787199177 / ISBN 13: 9781787199170

Published by Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe Nov 2018, 2018

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Neuware - 'Enlightening and startling. The world needs more writers like Matthew Small.' Charlie Carroll 'Brings into sharp relief the realities of poverty. inspiring and uplifting.' Tracy Shildrick 'A fascinating insight into what it feels like to live on the streets of the UK and India today.' Joanna Mack Poverty stretches across all of humanity and by travelling East, Small encounters the raw faces of poverty in India's slums; he works in a leprosy community, and joins the Sisters of Mercy on the smoggy and exhilarating streets in Calcutta. He then returns to the UK, to Bath, to see what the passing of three months means to those who are scarred by one of the most unglamorous of all humanities' ills, being poor. Small engages with different community members who are living with poverty, to answer these long standing questions: What's keeping them down What's pushing them out And how can we move forward.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Down and Out Today : Notes from the Gutter
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press Inc DBA Indepe Nov 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787199177
• ISBN 13: 9781787199170
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 197W x 127H x 19D millimeters 197 millimeters width by 127 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 354 grams

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Synopsis

'Enlightening and startling... The world needs more writers like Matthew Small.' Charlie Carroll

'Brings into sharp relief the realities of poverty... inspiring and uplifting.' Tracy Shildrick

'A fascinating insight into what it feels like to live on the streets of the UK and India today.' Joanna Mack 

Poverty stretches across all of humanity and by travelling East, Small encounters the raw faces of poverty in India’s slums; he works in a leprosy community, and joins the Sisters of Mercy on the smoggy and exhilarating streets in Calcutta. He then returns to the UK, to Bath, to see what the passing of three months means to those who are scarred by one of the most unglamorous of all humanities’ ills, being poor.

Small engages with different community members who are living with poverty, to answer these long standing questions: What’s keeping them down? What’s pushing them out? And how can we move forward?

About the Author

Matthew Small is a writer and freelance journalist, currently living and writing amongst the limestone city of Bath in South West England. Matthew has travelled through many parts of the world exploring different cultures and societies across five continents. In 2012 Matthew embarked on a trip to the Holy Land to further his political understanding of the area, which is documented in his debut book The Wall Between Us.