Pedro and Ricky Come Again

Selected Writing 1988-2020

Pedro and Ricky Come Again
Jonathan Meades
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h198 x 129mm - 992pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781800181427
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Jonathan Meades is the widely acclaimed author of Pompey, Museum Without Walls (20k copies) and An Encyclopaedia of Myself - described as ' a masterpiece' by the Financial Times, and shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize - among many others. His numerous films for the BBC are legendary, covering a vast range of subjects from jargon to the architecture of Fascism. This book assembles the best of Meades' s as yet uncollected writing from the past thirty years. For fans of A. A. Gill (The Best Of, Lines in the Sand), Owen Hatherley (Trans-Europe Express, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain), Christopher Hitchins (Arguably) and Martin Amis (The War Against Cliche, The Rub of Time).
' Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades' s] intense baroque end catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times' There are more gems in this wonderful book than I could cram into a dozen of these columns' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph' Almost too heavy to hold, nothing about the book is user-friendly. But then, as Meades puts it, who wants friendliness from books or from buildings? . . . Meades has sought to make a book shaped like his beloved Blenheim Palace: brutalist, arrogant; a moving finger' Frances Wilson, TLS' Such a useful and important critic . . . He is very much on the reader' s side, bringing his full wit to bear on every single thing he writes. There is not a sentence here that is not armoured with intelligence, and very few, if any, that are not, in their way, a delight to read' Nick Lezard,Spectator' This vast compendium has something to inform, amuse, shock or repulse on nearly every page' Paul Finch, Architects' Journal
Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction - Filthy English, Pompey and The Fowler Family Business - and several collections including Museum Without Walls, which received thirteen nominations as a book of the year in 2012. An Encyclopaedia of Myself was shortlisted for the 2014 PEN Ackerley Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015. His first and only cookbook, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen, was published in 2017. Meades has written and performed in more than sixty highly acclaimed television films on predominantly topographical subjects such as shacks, garden cities, megastructures, buildings associated with vertigo, beer, pigs, and the architecture of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Franco. He also creates artknacks and treyfs. Treyf means impure, not kosher: it sums up his approach to all writing, film and art.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800181427
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Unbound
Publisher: Unbound
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 992

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