Poverty Safari
Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass. Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018
(Sprache: Englisch)
A prize-winning, breakout bestseller, with famous fans including J. K. Rowling, Irvine Welsh and Ken Loach. A powerful, moving and important book.
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A prize-winning, breakout bestseller, with famous fans including J. K. Rowling, Irvine Welsh and Ken Loach. A powerful, moving and important book.
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . .
So he invites you to come on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. This book takes you inside the experience of poverty to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome.
Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets out what everybody - including himself - could do to change things. Razor-sharp, fearless and brutally honest, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain.
'It made me see the country and its social condition in a new light.'
Andrew Adonis, Chair of Judges, Orwell Prize 2018
'Nothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left.' Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
'A painfully honest autobiographical study of deprivation . . . this urgently written, articulate and emotional book is a bracing contribution to the debate' Financial Times
Autoren-Porträt von Darren McGarvey
Darren McGarvey
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Darren McGarvey
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2018, Main Market Ed., 240 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 1529006341
- ISBN-13: 9781529006346
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-de-force. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book. J.K. Rowling
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