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| No Place Like Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Gary Younge
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
Buy Used: £3.19
You Save: £3.80 (54%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 312560
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0330369814
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780330369817
ASIN: 0330369814
Publication Date: October 6, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Ex-library copy so usual stamps etc. some reading wear and tanning of pages - overall condition not bad!
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 a must read August 17, 2008
picked this up at friend's place and read it in a sitting. well written, clever, insightful. younge is the real deal. the usa is a strange and wonderful place and you can visit a bit of it in this book.
Very Enjoyable September 18, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I loved this book. Gary is a great journalist who writes for the Guardian and I have always enjoy his articles as they are clear and well argumented. It is obvious to me that Gary went to America to confirm his thoughts but the book is well written and is ideal for anyone who is interested in the topic.
 Good on Stevenage April 9, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Younge's first chapter, on growing up in Stevenage and then returning to it, is absolutely spot-on. I'm about the same age as Gary, and it was exactly as he recalls it: your mates all getting good jobs and apprenticeships at British Aerospace when you were going to university, and then coming back in the late Eighties and finding the place shot to bits, unkempt, dirty. If Mr Younge is as perceptive in the rest of the book (about which I have no direct experience) as he is about Stevenage (of which I have) then he's a writer to be trusted.
Insightful description of a journey through the USA January 17, 2001
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a white South African, books on racial matters tend to induce defensive reflexes. I found Gary's book excellent. It brings a different well presented perspective to light. I feel Gary tends to approach certain circumstances with a low expectation he is almost happy to see fulfilled. However as he proves by adjusting some of his opinions on his journey, he is able to adapt to new information by adjusting his views. He writes extremely well. I finished this book in one day, found it spellbounding, lucidly written, informative and entertaining. While I did not always agree with his views, he gave me fresh insight, what more can you ask for? A must buy.
Insightful Black Briton's Tour of the Deep South. December 20, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I received this as a present and after months of neglect read it in two avid late night sessions. Younge's odyssey is a moving testament to the courage of those blacks (and whites) who confronted and changed the legacy of slavery and segregation in the U.S. and to his own ability to modify his standard lefty preconceptions en route. He is particularly strong on the post 60s black experience and the way in which African Americans have simultaneously remained at the periphery of the polity whilst embracing some aspects of what we British might find rather exotic notions of patriotism. The style throughout is literate journalese; Younge is erudite, thoughtful, often gently comic and self effacing. I am buying a copy for a friend with a professional interest in Black History. I am white, incidentally, and not known as a bleeding heart.
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