Night Haunts: A Journey Through Nocturnal London - Couverture rigide

Sandhu, Sukhdev

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844671623 ISBN 13 : 9781844671625

Editeur : Verso Books, 2007

Synopsis

London at night has always been seen as a lawless orgy of depravity and pestilence. But is it now as bland and unthreatening as any new town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find out whether the London night really has been rendered neutral by street lighting and CCTV cameras. His nocturnal forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, urban fox hunters and exorcists. He wades through the sewers, hangs out with pirate DJs, and accompanies the marine patrol looking for midnight corpses. Beautifully written, Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city-to revitalize the great myth of London for a new century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sukhdev Sandhu is Chief Film Critic of the London Daily Telegraph, Professor of English Literature at New York University, and a Contributing Editor at Granta. He was named Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2005. He is the author of London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City (2003, which was shortlisted for the John Rhys Llewellyn Prize), and of I ll Get My Coat (2005). He is a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio, and his writings have appeared in the London Review of Books, New York Magazine, Modern Painters, Conde Nast Traveller and many other publications. Artangel collaborates with artists including Matthew Barney, Robert Wilson, Rachel Whiteread, Francis Alys, Barbara Kruger, Brian Eno and John Berger to create highly successful commissions. Most recently, Artangel's The Margate Exodus was explored in the Channel 4 documentaries Waste Man and Exodus.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844671623
• ISBN 13: 9781844671625
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible