London Fictions

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London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. It is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bed-sit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All human life is here high-minded Hampstead and boozy Fitzrovia, the Jewish East End, intellectual Bloomsbury and Chinese Limehouse, Black London, Asian London, Irish London, Gay London... Each essay is followed by an epilogue about the area each novel has covered - what has changed since the novel, and what has not.
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Author Whitehead Andrew
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781907869662
Pages 280
Published 01/04/2013
Publisher Five Leaves
Section Travel Writing: General
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