Overview
Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs.
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''This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.''
Nairn''s London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.
- | Author: Ian Nairn
- | Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- | Publication Date: Nov 06, 2014
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780141396156
- | ISBN-10: 0141396156
