Description
| Product ID: | 9781529006346 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Poverty Safari |
| Subtitle: | Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass |
| Authors: | Author: Darren McGarvey |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Poverty and precarity, Poverty & unemployment, Housing and homelessness, Social discrimination and social justice, Social mobility, Social classes, Welfare and benefit systems, Labour / income economics, Housing & homelessness, Social discrimination & inequality, Social mobility, Social classes, Welfare & benefit systems, Labour economics, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A prize-winning, breakout bestseller, with famous fans including J. K. Rowling, Irvine Welsh and Ken Loach. A powerful, moving and important book. <p><b>Brutally honest and fearless, <i>Poverty Safari </i>is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.<br><br>The <i>Sunday Times</i> Top Ten bestseller</b><br><b>Winner of the Orwell Prize.</b><br><b>Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll</b><br><br>Darren McGarvey, award-winning author and presenter of BBC series <i>The State We're In</i> has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry . . . <br><br>So he invites you to come on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. This book takes you inside the experience of poverty to show how the pressures really feel and how hard their legacy is to overcome.<br><br>Arguing that both the political left and right misunderstand poverty as it is actually lived, McGarvey sets out what everybody – including himself – could do to change things.<br><br><b>'Another cry of anger from a working class that feels the pain of a rotten, failing system. Its value lies in the strength it will add to the movement for change.' - Ken Loach, director of <i>Kes</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-08-09 |
