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Cargando... So spirited a town: visions and versions of Liverpoolpor Nicholas Murray
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An interesting book, easy to read and with a personal touch. Murray melds memories, quotations and history into a pleasant amalgam, and I easily read it within a day. You won't get a huge amount of hard information out of it, but it's not trying to be a textbook; rather, it's an attempt to capture something Liverpool and cast a loving eye over it. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this highly personal encounter with his native city Nicholas Murray blends literary descriptions of Liverpool across the centuries with his own memories of a 1960s Liverpool childhood to create an original and nuanced portrait of the character of a remarkable city. The result is a richmosaic built up from a range of literary sources: quirky eighteenth- and nineteenth-century guide books, songs, poems, reminiscences, sermons, novels, letters, histories, travelogues, political tracts, autobiographies, essays, journalism, official reports, and jokes.This is a book about how Liverpool has been seen by others but it is also a personal and sometimes moving record of growing up in Liverpool in the 1950s and 1960s, exploring in an often light-hearted way what it means to be "Scouse", never forgetting that De Quincey's "many-languaged town" is acosmopolitan, multi-racial seaport with an often tough history of poverty, industrial strife, migration, but, above all, humour. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)942.753History and Geography Europe England and Wales Northwest England and Isle of Man Liverpool and neighbouring metropolitan boroughs; Merseyside Liverpool CityClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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