{"product_id":"9781783529506","title":"Pedro and Ricky Come Again : Selected Writing 1988-2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Meades, Jonathan, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 18\/03\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 992 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Unbound,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Unbound,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Literary essays\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781783529506\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThis landmark publication collects three decades of writing from one of the most original, provocative and consistently entertaining voices of our time. Anyone who cares about language and culture should have this book in their life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThirty years ago, Jonathan Meades published a volume of reportorial journalism, essays, criticism, squibs and fictions called Peter Knows What Dick Likes. The critic James Wood was moved to write: 'When journalism is like this, journalism and literature become one.'Pedro and Ricky Come Again is every bit as rich and catholic as its predecessor. It is bigger, darker, funnier and just as impervious to taste and manners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt bristles with wit and pin-sharp eloquence, whether Meades is contemplating northernness in a German forest or hymning the virtues of slang. From the indefensibility of nationalism and the ubiquitous abuse of the word 'iconic', to John Lennon's shopping lists and the wine they call Black Tower, the work assembled here demonstrates Meades's unparalleled range and erudition, with pieces on cities, artists, sex, England, France, concrete, faith, politics, food, history and much, much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39819318427801,"sku":"9781783529506","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781783529506.jpg?v=1618656909","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781783529506","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}