London Spirits: Short Stories - Couverture souple

Burton, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935807331 ISBN 13 : 9781935807339

Editeur : Stansbury Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Anyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and a
certain spirit. London Spirits pays homage to this spirit using narrators (some dead, some alive; some historical, some fictional) who have a particularly interesting story to tell about their life and times in this great metropolis. There's Philip Clark, plumber to Westminster Abbey, who recounts a "cock-eyed" version of William and Mary's Coronation in 1689. There's Virginia Woolf who takes one last walk through Regent's Park in her waning days and revisits her past with powerful stream-of-consciousness memories. There's a contented suburban mother-of-two who is suddenly forced to confront her heady, "romantic" days as a London University student twenty years earlier. Other spirits include an Egyptian mummy in the British Museum; the Celtic warrior queen--Boadicea--at the millennium celebrations; a black British writer reflecting on his role as an artist in response to the racially-motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993; and an eccentric stranger in a pub who shares similar traits as the painter, Joseph Turner.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rob Burton was born and raised in England. He received his Bachelors of Arts from Kent University, Canterbury, and then won a scholarship to Indiana University in the United States where he earned a PhD in English and American Literature in 1984. He has been a Professor of English at California State University, Chico, for the past 28 years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stansbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935807331
• ISBN 13: 9781935807339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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