Pompey

'Disgusting and brilliant – should earn Meades justifiable comparison to Joyce, Celine, Pynchon' Paul Spike, Vogue. At first glance, this 1993 masterpiece is a post-war family saga set in and around the city of Portsmouth. This doesn't come close to communicating the scabrous magnificence of Meades's creation. Pompey is an obscene, suppurating vision of an England in terminal decline. The story be...