Stone Voices
«Highly personal and unusual assessment of Scotland now, weaving in his own political odyssey with a deep historical knowledge.We don't have intellectuals in this country any more except Neal and a couple of his mates, and the richness of texture in Stone Voices shows us what we are missing»
Andrew Marr
Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the mid-1980s were deeply influential. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Granta Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781862075832
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2003.
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«Highly personal and unusual assessment of Scotland now, weaving in his own political odyssey with a deep historical knowledge.We don't have intellectuals in this country any more except Neal and a couple of his mates, and the richness of texture in Stone Voices shows us what we are missing»
Andrew Marr
«A richly textured and most unusual meditation on Scotland...his ability to leapfrom archaeology to the politics of the labour party, and then back via a little linguistics to recalling a pub conversation is both disconcerting and inspiring»
Observer
«Provides a scholarly and poetic explanation of the emotional roots of Scottish nationalism, invaluable for any Englishman who is baffled by its anger and contradictions»
New Statesman
«Ascherson is one of the most stylish and erudite journalists around... Stone Voices is a lucky bag of a book, into which Ascherson has stuffed everything he knows about Scotland.The luckiest part is that he knows a great deal»
Sunday Telegraph
«Erudite and thorough»
Lesley McDowell, Sunday Herald
«Absorbing and beautifully written... full of surprising revelations (it has by far the best account of the Picts I have ever read) and with a range of reference which is breathtaking in its scope. Throughout it all, Ascherson's devotion to Scotland and its people, for all their faults, shines through»
Spectator
«Ascherson is both a brilliant writer and brings a searching intelligence to his subject (his analysis cannot easily be dismissed)»
Scotland on Sunday
«Ascherson's book is like a beautifully written embrace: an arm round the shoulder in an Argyll pub, (yet) with a journalistic persistence and fluency»
Independent