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      City of the Mind

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      In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of ...

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      Product ID:9780140156676
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:City of the Mind
      Authors:Author: Penelope Lively
      Page Count:224
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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      In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz.

      City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively

      ''This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.''

      In London''s changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs memories of his boyhood, the early years of his daughter Jane and the failed marriage that he has almost put behind him. Here too is the London of prehistory, of Georgian elegance, of the Blitz. But Matthew is occupied with constructing a new future for London in Docklands, and with it he begins to forge new beginnings of his own.

      ''A glorious novel'' Observer

      ''The descriptions of the London Blitz are achingly real'' Sunday Telegraph


      Imprint Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Publisher Name:Penguin Books Ltd
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:1992-04-30

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      Weight164 g
      Dimensions197 × 129 × 15 mm