This City |
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Author:
| Compton, Jennifer |
ISBN: | 978-1-877578-10-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Publisher: | Otago University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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This City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel. Topography and public space are a preoccupation (buses and trains, roads and houses, even Google Earth's Street View all get a mention), but it is her evocation of the transient grounded in these spaces - snippets overheard on an Italian strada, scenes on a bus on Moxham Ave, imaginings of lives from long ago (Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson) - that leaves a...
More DescriptionThis City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel. Topography and public space are a preoccupation (buses and trains, roads and houses, even Google Earth's Street View all get a mention), but it is her evocation of the transient grounded in these spaces - snippets overheard on an Italian strada, scenes on a bus on Moxham Ave, imaginings of lives from long ago (Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson) - that leaves a taut and exciting impression of lives lived here, in this place, in This City.