James Attlee

Under the Rainbow (eBook, ePUB)

Voices from Lockdown

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020; drawings; paintings and messages proliferated in its windows and gardens; signs of the human desire to communicate as face-to-face contact became impossible. When restrictions temporarily eased; writer James Attlee began ringing doorbells in his hometown of Oxford. On doorsteps and park benches; on council estates and among genteel terraces; he recorded the voices of those briefly emerging from isolation.

He won the trust of rainbow painters and anti-vaxxers; a Covid nurse; an LGBTQ+ artist; a VE Day celebrator and Black Lives Matter protesters; as well as frontline workers in a bakery and a supermarket. Their words; Attlee's pithy observations and sixteen pages of his photographs make Under the Rainbow a unique record of an extraordinary year and a tribute to creativity and resilience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913505073
• Artikelnr.: 61466927

Autorenporträt

James Attlee is the author of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey; Guernica: Painting the End of the World; Station to Station; shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017; Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight and Under the Rainbow: Voices from the First Lockdown; among other titles. His digital fiction The Cartographer's Confession won the New Media Writing Prize in 2018. He works as an editor; lecturer and publishing consultant and his journalism has appeared in many publications including Tate Etc.; The Independent; Frieze and London Review of Books.