Under the Rainbow - Voices From the First Lockdown

As the country entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, images and signs proliferated in windows, symptoms of the human desire to communicate as face-to-face contact became impossible. When restrictions temporarily eased, writer James Attlee began ringing doorbells in his hometown of Oxford. On doorsteps and park benches, on council estates and among genteel terraces, he recorded the voices of those briefly emerging from isolation.He won the trust of rainbow painters and anti-vaxxers, a Covid nurse, an LGBTQ+ artist, a VE Day celebrator and Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as frontline workers in a bakery and a supermarket. Their words, Attlee's pithy observations and 16 pages of his photographs make Under the Rainbow a unique record of an extraordinary year and a tribute to creativity and resilience.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

James Attlee is the author of Guernica: Painting the End of the World; Station to Station, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017 and Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight, among other titles. His digital fiction The Cartographer’s Confession won the New Media Writing Prize in 2018.

Zusammenfassung

'It is always a worthwhile ambition to get through a project like this without being punched.'Writer and urban explorer Attlee reads the signs and messages appearing in British windows during the pandemic, and interviews the people who made them.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Attlee, Attlee James
• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2021
• EAN: 9781913505066
• ISBN: 978-1-913505-06-6
• Seiten: 224
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Romanhafte Biographien; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general