James Meek

Private Island

Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 4893
• New, upd. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9781784782061
• ISBN-10: 1784782068
• Artikelnr.: 41863494

Autorenporträt

James Meek is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. He is the author of six novels that have published in the UK, US, France and Germany, including The People’s Act of Love, that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Ondaatje Prize and Scottish Arts Council Award. We Are Now Beginning our Descent won the 2008 Le Prince Maurice Prize and The Heart Broke In was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Prize. In 2004 he was named the Foreign Correspondent of the year by the British Press Awards and he contributes regularly to the Guardian, New York Times and International Herald Tribune. Website: www.jamesmeek.net

Rezensionen

James Meek's superb book exposes the perversities, hypocrisies and failures of privatisation. Meek is a writer of fiction as well as a journalist, and it shows: he crafts beautiful and vivid passages that turn what could be a dry subject into a highly readable study. Owen Jones New Statesman