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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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