Up the Junction - Couverture souple

Dunn, Nell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1582430667 ISBN 13 : 9781582430669

Editeur : Catapult, 2000

Synopsis

Nell Dunn's scenes of London life, as it was lived in the early Sixties in the industrial slums of Battersea, have few parallels in contemporary writing. The exuberant, uninhibited, disparate world she found in the tired old streets and under the railway arches is recaptured in these closely linked sketches; and the result is pure alchemy. In the space of 120 perfect pages, we witness clip–joint hustles, petty thieving, candid sexual encounters, casual birth and casual death. She has a superb gift for capturing colloquial speech and the characters observed in these pages convey that caustic, ironic, and compassionate feeling for life, in which a turn of phrase frequently contains startling flashes of poetry. Battersea, that teeming wasteland of brick south of the Thames, has found its poet in Nell Dunn and Up the Junction is her touchingly truthful and timeless testimonial to it.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nell Mary Dunn is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. She is known especially for a volume of short stories, Up the Junction, and a novel, Poor Cow.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catapult
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1582430667
• ISBN 13: 9781582430669
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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