Grayson Perry turns his acute eye on the gender that always seems to be in crisis in this funny, essential book.
Grayson Perry is a man. He is also an award-winning artist, a Bafta-winning TV presenter, a Reith Lecturer and a bestselling author with traditional masculine traits like a desire to always be right and to overtake all other cyclists when going up big hills.
An eloquent and witty tour guide through the fun house that is
masculinity ... He's just the man for the job
*The New York Times*
A funny, engaging, and at times penetrating trek through the tricky
landscape of contemporary masculinity ... [Perry is] a cultural
luminary
*NPR*
Pithy and insightful ... The Descent of Man fits into the tradition
of the 18th-century treatise, a plea for a new, enlightened social
order in the manner of Mary Wollstonecraft or William Hazlitt
*The Atlantic*
A joy to read
*Financial Times*
[Perry] is thoroughly engaging and charismatic ... His personality
shines through
*The Times*
GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT
our country would look if he was.
*Caitlin Moran*
Thoughtful, clearly written and a joy to read
*Evening Standard*
A fabulous book
*Victoria Hislop*
With its non-macho slender girth and personal, engaging approach,
[The Descent of Man] is a breeze of a read, and one that makes you
see our male-manufactured world a little differently ... Grayson
Perry has written the very book I wanted to write
*Guardian*
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