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Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass – The Orwell Prize Winner - Softcover

McGarvey, Darren

 
9781529006346: Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass – The Orwell Prize Winner
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529006341 ISBN 13: 9781529006346
Verlag: Picador, 2018

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The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.
Winner of the Orwell Prize.
Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll.

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.

Darren McGarvey, award-winning author and presenter of BBC series The State We're In, has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry . . .

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.

'Another cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change.' – Ken Loach, director of Kes

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Darren McGarvey aka Loki grew up in Pollok. He is a writer, performer, columnist and former rapper-in-residence at Police Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit. He has presented eight programmes for BBC Scotland exploring the root causes of anti-social behaviour and social deprivation. His novel Poverty Safari won the Orwell Prize 2018.

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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018

Darren 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

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529006341
ISBN 13 
9781529006346
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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