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Soft City: Picador Classic
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PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
| Author:
Jonathan Raban
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
PAN MACMILLAN INDIA
Author:
Jonathan Raban
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Jonathan Raban’s Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 197s, it is now more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever. With an introduction by Iain Sinclair. In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City, Jonathan Raban, one of our most acclaimed novelists and travel writers seeks to find out. ‘A psychological handbook for urban survival’ – Sunday Telegraph
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Jonathan Raban’s Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 197s, it is now more relevant to today’s overcrowded planet than ever. With an introduction by Iain Sinclair. In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us. How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City, Jonathan Raban, one of our most acclaimed novelists and travel writers seeks to find out. ‘A psychological handbook for urban survival’ – Sunday Telegraph
About Author
Born in 1942, Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines. In 199 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 223.
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