Pompey - Hardcover

Meades, Jonathan

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98 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224032933 ISBN 13: 9780224032933

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1993

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Takes place between the mid-1940s and the mid-1970s, in Brussels, Salisbury, the Congo, the industrial wastes of Lorraine - but the dominant setting is in the titular city - a nightmarish brick grid populated by freaks. Meades has also written "Filthy English" and "Peter Knows What Dick Likes".

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� 'An extraordinary work, peopled by the repellent, dwelling on the vile and yet done with so deft and brilliant a touch: a picnic in the heart of darkness. The writing is clever and complex, multi-layered and funny ... What a dark pleasure it is to come across writing that is both luminous and bilious.'
Susan Jeffreys, New Statesman

� 'The English novel needs its senses to be violently deranged, and this piledriver of a book ... might just provide a kick-start.'
Elizabeth Young, Independent on Sunday

� 'One admires the virtuosity, the creative nerve that enabled Meades to boldly go where few writers would dare.'
Andrew Clements, Financial Times

� ‘There is no doubt that Pompey is the product of a brilliant mind: one would not, however, wish to dine with its author."
Nick Hornby, TLS

� 'A brilliant blockbuster,"
Melvyn Bragg, Start the Week

� 'If Meades was a racehorse you'd be calling for a steward's enquiry. There's something in his feed which definitely gives him the lot.'
Iain Sinclair

� 'Disgusting and brilliant ... written with relentless energy and rhythm, phrase after phrase of this novel is 'highly crafted'.'
Paul Spike, Vogue

� 'With its mutilations, voyeurism, in-jokes, phantasmagoric idiolect and cruel humour, this is a harrowing and quite extraordinary book. It is lurid and ingenious ... but so perverse you get to love it.' David Profumo, Daily Telegraph

Book Description:

A paperback reissue of one of the most viciously brilliant 20th century British novels...

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