Publication

2015 - Atlantic Books, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

77,500 words, Guess

Page Count

310 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC305.90692
  • LCCGV450 .S55 2015

Description

Naked at Lunch is one man's cracklingly witty, compellingly odd and oddly life-affirming journey into the subculture of nudism. Celebrated journalist Mark Haskell Smith meets, and indeed joins, those shucking off social conventions by shucking off their clothes - he hikes bareback in the Alps with a naked rambler's society, he buys baguettes in the buff in a French resort and he meets the marginally dressed mayor of a Spanish clothes-optional municipality. But this is not just a book of naked adventures and sun-ripened genitals. It is a study of 20th-century Western cultural and social mores; a record of radical history and politics practised by those made radical by their refusal to get dressed; a heartfelt celebration of the simple joys of being alive; and a full-blooded war cry for reclaiming pride in our bodies and rejecting those who would make us ashamed.

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Other Editions

  • Naked at Lunch: The adventures of a reluctant nudistAtlantic Books2015-01-01

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