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Poverty Safari

Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass

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Poverty Safari

Yazan: Darren McGarvey
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The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.
Winner of the Orwell Prize.
Named the most 'Rebellious Read of the 21st Century' in a Scottish Book Trust poll.

Brutally honest and fearless, Poverty Safari is an unforgettable insight into modern Britain, and will change how you think about poverty.

Darren McGarvey, award-winning author and presenter of BBC series The State We're In, has experienced poverty and its devastating effects first-hand. He knows why people from deprived communities all around Britain feel angry . . .

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.

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.

'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 Kes

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Part memoir, part polemic, this is a savage, wise and witty tour-de-force. An unflinching account of the realities of systemic poverty, Poverty Safari lays down challenges to both the left and right. It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book. (J.K. Rowling)
Nothing less than an intellectual and spiritual rehab manual for the progressive left. (Irvine Welsh)
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)
Poverty Safari is an important and powerful book. (Nicola Sturgeon)
Poverty Safari documents in vivid, piercing and frequently funny prose, the reality of growing up in Pollok and the consequences of a chaotic family life (Stephen McGinty)
By his own account, Darren McGarvey’s first twenty-five years were a real-life version of Trainspotting . . . Poverty Safari [is] a painfully honest autobiographical study of deprivation and how society should deal with it . . . But what has made McGarvey such a particular figure of attention is his political message . . . [McGarvey] seems to offer an antidote to populist anger that transcends left and right . . . his urgently written, articulate and emotional book is a bracing contribution to the debate about how to fix our broken politics.
Poverty Safari is one of the best accounts of working-class life I have read. McGarvey is a rarity: a working-class writer who has fought to make the middle-class world hear what he has to say. (Nick Cohen)
If The Road to Wigan Pier had been written by a Wigan miner and not an Etonian rebel, this is what might have been achieved. McGarvey’s book takes you to the heart of what is wrong with the society free market capitalism has created. (Paul Mason)
The man seems to be on his way to becoming one of the most compelling and original voices in Scotland’s, and maybe Britain’s, public debate. If Scotland’s underclass could speak in a single, articulate, authentic voice to communicate to the rest of us what it’s like to be poor, isolated, brutalised, lost, it would sound very much like this.
Raw, powerful and challenging. (Kezia Dugdale)
A blistering analysis of the issues facing the voiceless and the social mechanisms that hobble progress, all wrapped up in an unput-downable memoir. (Denise Mina)
Describes in unflinching detail the realities of growing up poor in Britain and sets out to challenge the various ways in which poverty is represented in the media and on both sides of the political divide
A raw account of his own deprivation and addiction and a powerful political argument.
The standout, authentic voice of a generation . . . the world is looking for eloquent voices like McGarvey's to explain things
Utterly compelling. (Ian Rankin)
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Just jump in, Darren Mcgarvey will take you with him on the journey he's been on. Hugely insightful and pretty funny.

Important, and highly entertaining

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Regardless of whether you think you understand what poverty is. This book will inform, challenge and assist you to consider how poverty manifests it’s self in our society. It certainly made me reconsider my own beliefs and morals and has left me both energised and peaceful about my future thought processes around this subject.

Nice to hear the Firestation project get a mention. A place I am very familiar with.

Everyone should read/ listen to this book.

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I loved this book. Sad and funny. I've been looking for this book for a long time. An honest and entertaining examination of how we come to form our world view, of how we come to believe what we do. It's a vivid description of the experience of poverty and how it has influenced one man's journey of self dicovery. I am a middle class man, and it spoke to me in plain language about how I have come to my understanding of 'how things are'. It's not an angry rant, but an invitation to think about our human condition.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wants an insight into poverty, and into themselves as well. Excellent.

Inspiring and Unsettling

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Enjoyed hearing Darren's perspective on politics, class and grass roots activism- it challenged me in a good way. It forced me to look at my own judgements and prejudice and question how that's serving me. I have a lot of respect for his honesty and admire his vulnerability and courage in sharing what must have been a difficult story to tell at times.

Raw, real and honest. Loved it.

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I am one of 10 children and can relate to so much of this. I really made me think especially when he talks about his family statistics . I don't think I've ever heard poverty explained so well and so cleverly. Well done

brilliant

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