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The North - (And Almost Everything In It) (Paperback)
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The North - (And Almost Everything In It) (Paperback)
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List price R492
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A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and
cultural observation, Paul Morley's The North is a unique portrait
of Northern England and almost everything within it 'Breathtaking
tour de force' Mail on Sunday 'Packed with raw emotions and
ambivalent passions ... Morley writes with care and precision,
though, and his rhythm is such that his book is a lively, breezy
read' Sunday Times Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five
miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the
age of seven Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner.
What that meant, he wasn't entirely sure. It was for him, as it is
for millions of others in England, an absolute, indisputable truth.
Forty years after walking down grey pavements on his way to school,
Paul explores what it means to be northern and why those who
consider themselves to be believe it so strongly. Like industrial
towns dotted across great green landscapes of hills and valleys,
Morley breaks up his own history with fragments of his region's own
social and cultural background. Stories of his Dad spreading
margarine on Weetabix stand alongside those about northern
England's first fish and chip shop in Mossley, near Oldham.
Ambitiously sweeping and beautifully impressionistic, without ever
losing touch with the minute details of life above the M25, The
North is an extraordinary mixture of memoir and history, a unique
insight into how we, as a nation, classify the unclassifiable.
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