Hero for High Times
«Listen carefully, children, to a checklist of the British underground scene... This amiable and engaging blog-doc is an Odyssey for elective outsiders. Here are real monsters and sirens of Soho and Presteigne, legions of the talkative dead, and a great rattletrap camper van voyage carrying us back to the point of origin… A Hero for High Times is Ian Marchant’s monumental defence of the alternative way.»
Iain Sinclair, Guardian
A new history of counterculture in the UK, from the release of Heartbreak Hotel in 1956 to the passing of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994 Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780099575658
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2018 UK.
Anmeldelser
«Listen carefully, children, to a checklist of the British underground scene... This amiable and engaging blog-doc is an Odyssey for elective outsiders. Here are real monsters and sirens of Soho and Presteigne, legions of the talkative dead, and a great rattletrap camper van voyage carrying us back to the point of origin… A Hero for High Times is Ian Marchant’s monumental defence of the alternative way.»
Iain Sinclair, Guardian
«Infectious... [A] hugely engaging compendium of high ideals, low morals and apeshit behaviour.»
John Walsh, Sunday Times
«An up close and personal story of the counterculture... as well as a rumination on the nature of friendship.»
Choice Magazine **Pick of the Paperbacks**
«A lament for lost hope and a lost radicalism amid the conservatism of the contemporary world.»
Teddy Jamieson, Glasgow Herald
«A defiant, funny lament for lost ideals.»
The Sun
«Extraordinary... What a seditious, crackpot, transcendental riot this book is. My book of the year, and it’s only February.»
Roger Lewis, The Times
«Made me laugh»
**Books of the Year**, Spectator
«A huge, generous, and fascinating study of the counterculture, from its earliest inception to Rave; and much of it seen through the prism of one unlikely survivor from the era»
Best Holiday Reads, Evening Standard
«Ian Marchant is one of Britain’s most remarkable, but under-recognized, writers. He is a true chronicler of the country... You never quite know what he’s going to do next, but what you do know is that it will be fascinating, and beautifully written... This, I think, is the book Marchant was born to write: it’s a testament, a collection of tall tales that all turn out to be true... It’s one of those books that seems to lift off its own pages: it’s an enactment of the very thing it describes. It places a whole way of life in context, and becomes, defying chronology, part of that context itself. I can put it no plainer than that»
Nicholas Lezard, Dhaka Tribune