Poverty Safari (A Body of Work): 3 Into the Book
Darren McGarvey’s Orwell prize winning book, Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass (2017) is a challenge to classify. Part memoir, part political journalism, its author refers to it as a ”series of loosely connected rants that give the appearance of a book.” McGarvey is perhaps a little harsh on himself. J.K. Rowling, Ken Loach, and Irvine Welsh gave very favourable reviews, and the...