All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London
Ged Pope, "All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London"
English | ISBN: 1789143071 | 2020 | 480 pages | PDF | 10 MB
English | ISBN: 1789143071 | 2020 | 480 pages | PDF | 10 MB
From Evelyn Waugh to P. G. Wodehouse and Lawrence Durrell, a sweeping celebration of literature set in and inspired by the suburbs of London.
The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo cheering on Charlton Athletic Football Club down at The Valley, or Angela Carter hymning the joyful “wrongness” of living south-of-the-river in Brixton. From Richmond to Rainham, Cockfosters to Croydon, this sweeping literary tour of the thirty-two London Boroughs describes how writers, from the seventeenth century on, have responded to and fictionally reimagined London’s suburbs. It introduces us to the great suburban novels, such as Hanif Kureishi’s Bromley-set
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