Londoners
$39.49
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2013
Summary
Many of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts—some are criminals in society’s eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit—the bedsit; the cruisers’ pub—lie cheek by jowl with the worlds of the affluent and successful—the smart restaurant, the House of Commons Committee room.
Al, the narrator, is a Londoner born and bred, a writer living in a small room in West London. Most of the other residents in the cavernous Victorian house—and the friends …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099587361 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009958736X |
| Author: | Maureen Duffy |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The London Trilogy |
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About The Author
Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy is a British poet, playwright and novelist. After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in English from King’s College London. She was a schoolteacher from 1956 to 1961, and then turned to writing full-time as a poet and playwright. Her London trilogy comprises, firstly, Wounds, set in South London during the early period of Afro-Caribbean immigration; secondly, Capital tells the history of London from Neolithic times through tales of Saxon kings, anonymous invaders, the flea that spread the Black Death and the transsexual King Elizabeth; and finally Londoners follows Dante’s Inferno, canto by canto, through modern gay London. Duffy is the author of 33 published works, including seven collections of poetry, non-fiction and 16 plays for stage, screen and radio; she is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of King’s College London, a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature, and holds honorary DLitts from the universities of Loughborough and Kent. A new collection, Environmental Studies, was published by Enitharmon in April 2013 and was longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2013.
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