Dreams of Leaving and Remaining: Fragments of a Nation - Hardcover

Meek, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788735234 ISBN 13: 9781788735230

Verlag: Verso Books, 2019

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Praise for James Meeks's Private Island "Some of it will make you sad, some of it will make you furious, but you are guaranteed to be left feeling that you understand this country much betterc." --John Lanchester "He crafts beautiful and vivid passages that turn what could be a dry subject into a highly readable study." --Owen Jones "A book that stands as one of the most powerful critiques of the mess that is Britain's economy."--Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian "This is the definitive account of how so much has gone and continues to go wrong with Britain's institutions."--Joan Bakewell "If you have a taste for historical irony and absurdity, you'll love this book."--Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday "Meek listens hard ... His reportage ... demonstrate[s] a sensibility and empathy that are his won't."--Financial Times "An energetic and colourfully told polemic." --Financial Times "Provocative and persuasive."--Herald Scotland "A beautiful collection by a renowned essayist."--Stephen Bush, Guardian

Reseña del editor:

Since Britain's 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence. Underlying the cleavage are primal myths, deeper histories, and political folk-legends. James Meek,`the George Orwell of our times', goes in search of the stories and consequences arising out of a nation's alienation from itself. In Dreams of Leaving and Remaining, Meek meets farmers and fishermen intent on exiting the EU despite the loss of protections they will incur. He reports on a Cadbury's factory shut down and moved to Poland in the name of free market economics, exploring the impact on the local community left behind. He charts how the NHS is coping with the twin burdens of austerity and an aging population. Dreams of Leaving and Remaining is urgent reporting from one of Britain's finest journalists. James Meek asks what we can recover from the debris of an old nation as we head towards new horizons, and what we must leave behind.There are no easy answers, and what he creates instead is a masterly portrait of an anxious, troubled nation.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1788735234
• ISBN 13: 9781788735230
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272