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A Journey Through Ruins
The Last Days of London
Taschenbuch von Patrick Wright
Sprache: Englisch

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A unique evocation of Britain at the height of the Thatcher era, viewing the transformation of the country through the prism of everyday life in East London to create a penetrating portrait of its age.
A unique evocation of Britain at the height of the Thatcher era, viewing the transformation of the country through the prism of everyday life in East London to create a penetrating portrait of its age.
Über den Autor
Patrick Wright was born in Manchester's edgelands in 1979. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his poems have appeared in several magazines, most recently Agenda, The High Window, and Wasafiri. He has been twice included in The Best New British and Irish Poets anthology (2018 and 2019), judged by Maggie Smith and Nick Makoha, respectively. He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University and lives in Manchester.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Going Back to Dalston: Preface to the Oxford Edition

  • Part One: The Undemolished World of Dalston Lane

  • 1: Street-Corner Vision

  • 2: Around the World in Three Hundred Yards

  • 3: All Cats are Grey by Night

  • 4: Down in the Dirt

  • 5: Dalston Lane Becomes a Downland Track

  • Part Two: Brideshead and the Tower Blocks

  • 6: Brideshead Relocated

  • 7: Abysmal Heights

  • 8: Rodinsky's Place

  • 9: An Unexpected Reprieve

  • Part Three: Scenes from the Privatized City

  • 10: The London Bus Queue Falls Apart

  • 11: The Vandalized Telephone Box

  • 12: The Man with a Metal Detector

  • 13: Drinking Water in a Toxic State

  • Part Four: Tales of Conversion

  • 14: The Park that Lost its Name

  • 15: Remembering London's War

  • 16: The Bow Quarter: Six Hundred and Seventy Luxury Flats in an Old Victorian Hell-House

  • Part Five: Visions of the New Dawn

  • 17: Excellence: From Fifth Avenue to Hackney Town Hall

  • 18: Refounding the City with Prince Charles

  • Afterwards...

  • 19: Down Among the Gentrifiers

  • 20: A Night to Remember

  • 21: Brick Lane's Day of Killing

  • 22: Don Giovanni (and Business Planning) Come to the Hackney Empire

  • 23: Siraj Izhar's public lavatory

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199541942
ISBN-10: 0199541949
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wright, Patrick
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Wright
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,453 kg
Artikel-ID: 108624355
Über den Autor
Patrick Wright was born in Manchester's edgelands in 1979. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and his poems have appeared in several magazines, most recently Agenda, The High Window, and Wasafiri. He has been twice included in The Best New British and Irish Poets anthology (2018 and 2019), judged by Maggie Smith and Nick Makoha, respectively. He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University and lives in Manchester.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Going Back to Dalston: Preface to the Oxford Edition

  • Part One: The Undemolished World of Dalston Lane

  • 1: Street-Corner Vision

  • 2: Around the World in Three Hundred Yards

  • 3: All Cats are Grey by Night

  • 4: Down in the Dirt

  • 5: Dalston Lane Becomes a Downland Track

  • Part Two: Brideshead and the Tower Blocks

  • 6: Brideshead Relocated

  • 7: Abysmal Heights

  • 8: Rodinsky's Place

  • 9: An Unexpected Reprieve

  • Part Three: Scenes from the Privatized City

  • 10: The London Bus Queue Falls Apart

  • 11: The Vandalized Telephone Box

  • 12: The Man with a Metal Detector

  • 13: Drinking Water in a Toxic State

  • Part Four: Tales of Conversion

  • 14: The Park that Lost its Name

  • 15: Remembering London's War

  • 16: The Bow Quarter: Six Hundred and Seventy Luxury Flats in an Old Victorian Hell-House

  • Part Five: Visions of the New Dawn

  • 17: Excellence: From Fifth Avenue to Hackney Town Hall

  • 18: Refounding the City with Prince Charles

  • Afterwards...

  • 19: Down Among the Gentrifiers

  • 20: A Night to Remember

  • 21: Brick Lane's Day of Killing

  • 22: Don Giovanni (and Business Planning) Come to the Hackney Empire

  • 23: Siraj Izhar's public lavatory

  • Notes

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199541942
ISBN-10: 0199541949
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wright, Patrick
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Patrick Wright
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2009
Gewicht: 0,453 kg
Artikel-ID: 108624355
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