Plot

A Biography of My Father's English Acre

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Madeleine Bunting is one of the most high-profile commentators in Britain. Her father was deeply conservative, with romantic, old-fashioned views about England. After his death, and wanting to understand him better, Bunting began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachment to a small plot of land in North Yorkshire. Delving deep into the rich history of this acre, she uncovers traces of its Neolithic inhabitants and of the Cistercian monks; she learns of the medieval battles and considers the changing face of agriculture and leisure. The result sheds a fascinating light on what a contested, layered place England is, and on what belonging to a place might mean to all of us. The Plot is an original, heartfelt and deeply political book.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-07-01
Mått130 x 197 x 23 mm
Vikt305 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagGranta Books
ISBN9781847081445
UtmärkelserShort-listed for THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2010 (UK)

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Madeleine Bunting was for many years a columnist for the Guardian, which she joined in 1990. Born in North Yorkshire, Bunting read History at Cambridge and Politics at Harvard. She is the author of The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German Rule, 1940-45, Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives (both published by HarperCollins) . The Plot won the Portico Prize and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Madeleine left the Guardian in 2013 to concentrate on her writing. She lives in London with her family.

An intriguing and elegant chronicle of a wild and woolly patch of England ... Bunting is on finest form dealing with recent history, particularly when she exposes the modern "cultural myth of the rural idyll" and the very English idiocy of preserving this view while the environment dies. Her scholarship ultimately produces a persuasive argument for a more potent sense of place in rootless, mobile Britain