Our Hidden Lives (häftad)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
544
Utgivningsdatum
2005-04-07
Förlag
Ebury Publishing
Dimensioner
196 x 129 x 34 mm
Vikt
345 g
ISBN
9780091897338

Our Hidden Lives

The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain

av Simon Garfield
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-04-07
203

10% rabatt på allt vid köp från 299 kr med kod LUCIA25

Gäller t.o.m. 15 december. Villkor

Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Skickas från oss inom 2-5 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Our Hidden Lives Kan tyvärr inte längre levereras innan julafton.
Köp ett presentkort istället.
In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where remarkably most remain unread. In Our Hidden Lives, Simon Garfield has skilfully woven a tapestry of diary entries in the rarely discussed but pivotal period of 1945 to 1948. The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten Voices or indeed Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman. 'I love these diaries. They have the attraction of being stories, but REAL stories - Better than any novel.' Margaret Forster 'A lovely book. It will appeal to anyone who appreciates the richness and diversity of human experience.' Tony Benn 'Utterly engrossing, better than any kind of reality TV.' Gavin Esler 'Funny, vivid, touching, angry, thoughtful - every page is a delight. This is definitely no. 1 on my present list to give to everyone in the coming year.' Jenny Uglow, author of The Lunar Men
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Our Hidden Lives
  2. +
  3. Question 7

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt Question 7 av Richard Flanagan (häftad).

Köp båda 2 för 325 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Simon Garfield

Visa alla böcker av Simon Garfield »

Övrig information

Simon Garfield is an award-winning feature writer on The Observer and author of two previous books of oral history, both highly acclaimed. His study of Aids in Britain, The End of Innocence, was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and the bestselling Mauve was described by the Daily Telegraph as 'a book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art'. His most recent work, The Last Journey of William Huskisson, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Du kanske gillar