All the Tiny Moments Blazing

A Literary Guide to Suburban London

All the Tiny Moments Blazing
Ged Pope
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Paperback
h234 x 156mm - 560pg
12 Sep 2022 UK
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9781789146486
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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 The Buddha of Suburbia, Lawrence Durrell' s The Black Book, and Zadie Smith' s NW. It also reveals the lesser-known short stories, diaries, poems, local guides, travelogues, memoirs, and biographies, which together show how these communities have long been closely observed, keenly remembered, and brilliantly imagined.
"Pope' s book about suburban London is a superbly curated compendium of writers' representations of its mysterious, ever-changing geographies, one that makes them seem every bit as culturally and socially important as the city' s various historic centers. Urgently and vividly written, it is full of scintillating insight into the public and private lives of the suburbs' inhabitants through the centuries. All the Tiny Moments Blazing will make every reader, whatever their relationship to the suburbs, rethink the history of London. "--Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
Ged Pope specializes in cultural studies and London history and culture, and currently teaches at IES Study Abroad in Bloomsbury.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789146486
Published: 12 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 560

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