Description
| Product ID: | 9781783529506 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Pedro and Ricky Come Again |
| Subtitle: | Selected Writing 1988–2020 |
| Authors: | Author: Jonathan Meades |
| Page Count: | 992 |
| Subjects: | Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Architecture, Literary essays, Architecture, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The best of three decades of Jonathan Meades ''Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades''s] intense baroque and catholic cleverness'' Roger Lewis, The Times ''One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don’t deserve Meades, a man who apparently has never composed a dull paragraph'' Steven Poole, Guardian This landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life. Thirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: ‘When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.’ From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word ‘iconic’, to John Lennon’s shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades''s unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, France, concrete, faith, politics, food, history and much, much more. |
| Imprint Name: | Unbound Digital |
| Publisher Name: | Unbound |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-18 |