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Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It Contributor(s): Taylor, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062005863 ISBN-13: 9780062005861 Publisher: Ecco Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - 21st Century - Travel | Europe - Great Britain - Social Science | Regional Studies |
Dewey: 942.1 |
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.34" W x 8" L (0.71 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Features: Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 03/24/2013 pg. 24 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great, messy, noisy, daunting, inspiring, maddening, enthralling, constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place. . . . Delightful. . . . In Taylor's patient and sympathetic hands, regular people become poets, philosophers, orators." -- New York Times Book Review Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities-a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time, featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum. Acclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city, getting to know the most interesting Londoners, including the voice of the London Underground, a West End rickshaw driver, an East End nightclub doorperson, a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace, and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London--and now live there. With candor and humor, this diverse cast--rich and poor, old and young, native and immigrant, men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George)--shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before. Together, these voices paint a vivid, epic, and wholly original portrait of twenty-first-century London in all its breadth, from Notting Hill to Brixton, from Piccadilly Circus to Canary Wharf, from an airliner flying into London Heathrow Airport to Big Ben and Tower Bridge, and down to the deepest tunnels of the London Underground. Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities. |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Craig: - Craig Taylor is the author of Return to Akenfield and One Million Tiny Plays About Britain, both of which have been adapted for the stage. He is also the editor of the literary magazine Five Dials. He lives in London. |
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