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Souvenir

Af: Michael Bracewell Engelsk Hardback

Souvenir

Af: Michael Bracewell Engelsk Hardback
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''The best evocation I''ve read of London in the ''80s'' Neil Tennant

''I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope'' John Burnside

''A suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had'' Philip Hoare

''Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism'' Jonathan Coe

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another. Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980...

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''The best evocation I''ve read of London in the ''80s'' Neil Tennant

''I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope'' John Burnside

''A suspended act of retrieval, a partisan recall; a sustained, subtle summary of our recent past, and an epitaph for a future we never had'' Philip Hoare

''Michael Bracewell proves himself to be nothing less than the poet laureate of late capitalism'' Jonathan Coe

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another. Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980...

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9781474622301
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1474622305
Kategori: Central London
Udg. Dato: 2 sep 2021
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 206mm
Højde: 137mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 2 sep 2021
Forfatter(e): Michael Bracewell
Forfatter(e) Michael Bracewell


Kategori Central London


ISBN-13 9781474622301


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 128


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 206mm


Højde 137mm


Udg. Dato 2 sep 2021


Oplagsdato 2 sep 2021


Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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