Nairn's London

TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014br>br>''This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.'' br>br>Nairn''s London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.>

Summary

Presents a subjective meditation on a city and its buildings including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs.

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A masterpiece ... Nairn was a poet ... Nairn's London belongs to no genre save its own, it is of a school of one ... There is barely a page which does not contain some startling turn of phrase Jonathan Meades

Product details

• Authors: Ian Nairn, Nairn Ian
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780141396156
• ISBN: 978-0-14-139615-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 181 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Architektur : Geschichte, London, Greater London, History of Architecture