Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city to revitalise the great myth of London for a new century. Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered insipid by street lighting and CCTV.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Offering some of the greatest insights we have into contemporary London -- Michael Moorcock * Daily Telegraph * A book that restores some mystery and romance to the London night * The Times * Unconventional, poetic and haunting meditation on the capital's hours of darkness and the largely unregarded men and women who wakefully inhabit it. * Observer * In a vivid series of vignettes, Sandhu traverses the capital, inspired by HV Morton's 1926 The Nights of London. * Guardian * A luminous series of sketches in Orwellian style, from cabbies and sewer flushers ("fat is the bane of their lives") to exorcists and Thames bargers ("Nobody knows we're here. Nobody"). This book is an atmospheric and witty companion, especially for those who, like Sandhu, spend the dark hours awake. * Independent * Sandhu turns his gaze on a side of London many of us blithely pass through regularly; a dirty city with dirty secrets, after dark ... Night Haunts is layered and lyrical ... an essential though underappreciated contribution to the 2000s psychogeography revival. -- Johny Pitts * Observer *
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78663-331-6 (9781786633316)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sukhdev Sandhu is the author of London Calling. He lives in New York and London, and writes for London Review of Books, Modern Painters and Times Literary Supplement. He is the award-winning chief film critic of Daily Telegraph and Associate Professor of English and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.
