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Taylor Craig
Taylor Craig - Londoners The Days And Nights Of London Now - - As Told By Those Who Love It Hate It Live It Left It And Long For It - Paperback
Taylor Craig - Londoners The Days And Nights Of London Now - - As Told By Those Who Love It Hate It Live It Left It And Long For It - Paperback
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Description: A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great messy noisy daunting inspiring maddening enthralling constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place . Delightful . In Taylor's patient and sympathetic hands regular people become poets philosophers orators. - - New York Times Book Review Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum. Acclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city getting to know the most interesting Londoners including the voice of the London Underground a West End rickshaw driver an East End nightclub doorperson a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London and now live there. With candor and humor this diverse cast rich and poor old and young native and immigrant men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George) shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before. Together these voices paint a vivid epic and wholly original portrait of twenty - first - century London in all its breadth from Notting Hill to Brixton from Piccadilly Circus to Canary Wharf from an airliner flying into London Heathrow Airport to Big Ben and Tower Bridge and down to the deepest tunnels of the London Underground. Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities.
Title: Londoners The Days And Nights Of London Now - - As Told By Those Who Love It Hate It Live It Left It And Long For It
Author(s): Taylor Craig
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062005861
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/5/2013
Description: A rich and exuberant kaleidoscopic portrait of a great messy noisy daunting inspiring maddening enthralling constantly shifting Rorschach test of a place . Delightful . In Taylor's patient and sympathetic hands regular people become poets philosophers orators. - - New York Times Book Review Londoners is a fresh and compulsively readable view of one of the world's most fascinating cities a vibrant narrative portrait of the London of our own time featuring unforgettable stories told by the real people who make the city hum. Acclaimed writer and editor Craig Taylor has spent years traversing every corner of the city getting to know the most interesting Londoners including the voice of the London Underground a West End rickshaw driver an East End nightclub doorperson a mounted soldier of the Queen's Life Guard at Buckingham Palace and a couple who fell in love at the Tower of London and now live there. With candor and humor this diverse cast rich and poor old and young native and immigrant men and women (and even a Sarah who used to be a George) shares indelible tales that capture the city as never before. Together these voices paint a vivid epic and wholly original portrait of twenty - first - century London in all its breadth from Notting Hill to Brixton from Piccadilly Circus to Canary Wharf from an airliner flying into London Heathrow Airport to Big Ben and Tower Bridge and down to the deepest tunnels of the London Underground. Londoners is the autobiography of one of the world's greatest cities.
Title: Londoners The Days And Nights Of London Now - - As Told By Those Who Love It Hate It Live It Left It And Long For It
Author(s): Taylor Craig
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062005861
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/5/2013