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City of the Mind (Paperback)

by Penelope Lively (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New edition edition (29 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140156674
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140156676
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 371,916 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In London’s changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is constantly aware of the past and the present blending together. 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, fragile yet hopeful, beginnings of his own. Lives connect and intersect in a web of connections, random and mysterious, in one of Penelope Lively’s most evocative novels.


About the Author

Penelope Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. She was married to the late Professor Jack Lively, has a daughter, a son, three granddaughters and three grandsons, and lives in London. She has written many prize-winning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children. Moon Tiger won the 1987 Booker Prize. Penelope Lively’s most recent book, Making It Up, is available now in Penguin paperback.

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4.0 out of 5 stars One mans journey, rich in thoughts and life, 21 Mar 2001
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Our "hero" is an succesful architect with a failed marriage, one daughter and plenty of emotional baggage. The writer takes us on a journey through the city, viewed through the eyes of the architect as we move from prehistory to now, via Victoria and the Blitz.

The descriptions of the bombing runs on London during the forties, and the quest for the north west passage during the 19th century, are so real and so well written, that all you have to do is close your eyes to be there.

Whilst the present day of the book is a Jackson Pollocks' of emotions, painted with wit and vigour. The canvas being the building of Docklands, divorce and love over lunchtime.

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