London Fictions ( 1 )

Publication series :1

Author: Whitehead   Andrew;White   Jerry  

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781907869860

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781907869662

Subject: I1 World Literature

Keyword: 世界文学

Language: ENG

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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, bedsit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All human life is here – highminded Hampstead and boozy Fitzrovia, the Jewish East End, intellectual Bloomsbury and Chinese Limehouse, Black London, Asian London, Irish London, Gay London...

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