Yes We Have No: Adventures in the Other England - Softcover

Cohn, Nik

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9780394568706: Yes We Have No: Adventures in the Other England

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394568702 ISBN 13: 9780394568706

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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A portrait of the hidden side of England presents a country of techno-freaks, obsessed soccer fans, graffiti artists, Elvis impersonators, faith healers, and fetishists, in a study of a side of the country seldom seen by tourists

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Long-term commentator on the alternative and strange, Nik Cohn has an empathy with outcasts and exiles that makes his book of "adventures in other England" powerful and moving. In the company of the wired and the entranced, he goes to pubs in Toxteth and meetings of Odin-worshippers and just listens to people talking. This is not Cool Britannia and it is not a New Britain for New Labour--Cohn talks to communities of the marginalised whose sense of the way things works is entirely at odds with the squeaky clean. He talks to Asians who came here to work and find themselves hated by their white neighbours and unable quite to deal with sons and daughters whose version of a culture of their own draws on those bits of Asian culture they find austere or too wild and on a Britishness that has little to do with traditional ideas of work. He talks to embittered West Indians and only partially reformed Nazis--and to evicted squatters and dispossessed miners. Much of this book appeared as columns in the Guardian, but they are more permanent than that might imply; an angry portrait of a Republic of the excluded. -- Roz Kaveney

About the Author:

Nik Cohn is the author of Need, a novel, and The Heart of the World, which won the Thomas Cook Award for best travel book of 1992.

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