Summary
A selection of Ian Jack’s incisive and thought-provoking writing and reporting, taken from his twenty years working as a journalist at Granta, the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Times.
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack sets out to deal with contemporary Britain – from national disasters to football matches to obesity – but is always drawn back in time, vexed by the question of what came first.
In ‘Women and Children First’, w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099532132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099532131 |
| Author: | Ian Jack |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Jack’s eye for precise detail, his curiosity and his luminous intelligence shine through every piece. His is a kind of writing we are lucky to still have around – Jackie Kay * Scotsman *
Elegiac rather than nostalgic… At the heart of the book are three magnificent essays * The Economist *
Superb – Alexander Chancellor * Spectator *
Wonderful… Jack is a superb and diverse writer, with a mind and eyes and a nose for virtually everything… He’s smart, proportionate, discerning and (rarest of rarities) decent. To me, this book is indispensable – Richard Ford * Guardian, Books of the Year *
Ian Jack’s superbly evocative essays are the ideal advertisement for the virtues of print journalism… superbly evocative – Rachel Cooke * The Observer *
Ian Jack does for Great Britain what Arthur Miller did for the US and portrays a land through journalistic vignettes and essays – Emmanuelle Smith * Financial Times *
One of our most prized journalists…we are lucky to have him. Where in many places else there is cant abounding, here is that rare thing, cant deficiency – Giles Foden * Guardian *
For a perceptive perspective on the Britain that we’re leaving ever further behind, Jack’s journalism is hard to beat – David Robinson * Scotsman *
An intriguing selection of the writing of Ian Jack…Jack masterfully reflects on the past while bringing modern life into sharp focus…despite taking an unflinching approach, his work is often humorous – Tom Hicks * Metro *
This is a beady, sometimes moving book which proves that the finest journalism is worth paying for – Rachel Cooke * New Statesman, Books of 2009 *
About The Author
Ian Jack
Ian Jack worked at the Sunday Times from 1970 to 1986 as a reporter, editor, feature writer, and foreign correspondent after working on a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s. He co-founded the Independent on Sunday in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. After serving as editor since 1995, he left Granta in 2007 and now writes regularly for the Guardian. He is the author of two non-fiction books: Before the Oil Ran Out- Britian 1977-86 (1987) and The Crash That Stopped Britain (2001).
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