The Evening Standard – 23 May 2006 – Author James Meek’s first novel, The People’s Act of Love, won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for the book ‘that best evokes the spirit of a place’, and guests were told that it had just been optioned by Johnny Depp to make into a film.
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New York, NY: Canongate (2006)
The People’s Act of Love
by James Meek
Johnny Depp says:
“As with any great work, James Meeks’ The People’s Act of Love is bound to raise comparisons – and as in almost all cases, being wrangled into that snare is a trap that should be avoided at all costs. This incredible book should and will rest on its own laurels as a treatise on the complicated nature of love and humanity. The author has himself earned every brilliant word, sentence and chapter of this divine masterpiece.”
*Our thanks to Johnnydepp-zone and Johnny Depp Reads for this information.
