The Search for the Perfect Pub
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About this book
In 1946 George Orwell a man fond of a pint wrote about his favorite pub The Moon Under Water in his Evening Standard column. But it didnt actually exist. It was Orwells vision of a perfect pub. Today Wetherspoons have fourteen Moon Under Waters and the nation is awash with identikit high-street lounge bars competing for a dwindling clientele. Paul Moody and Robin Turners road trip around Britain therefore is not just a search for the perfect pub. It is a deeper investigation into what has happened to British pub culture once the toast of the world. In fact it is a search for a kind of life-force kindled by the British public something the powers-that-be are forever trying to extinguish. Along the way such luminaries as Pete Brown ("the King of Beer") Tim Martin (Wetherspoons boss) Iain Sinclair James Dean Bradfield and Paul Kingsnorth are consultedalong with a host of micro-brewers landlords politicians bloggers and barroom philosophers. What emerges is a picture of the country as seen through a pint glass a vision that goes to the heart of what it means to be British.
