Urban voices : a collection of writing on city life

著者

    • Gould, Mike

書誌事項

Urban voices : a collection of writing on city life

edited by Mike Gould

（Cambridge collections）

Cambridge University Press, 2009

  • : paperback

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Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A collection of texts that explores the excitement, tensions and injustices of urban life. A variety of texts - including extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories - make up each of the five themed sections: Five cities; This landscape, these people, Penthouse and pavement; Gangs, groups, friends, foes and Hear me speak. The collection include texts by Bill Bryson, Jeanette Winterson, Beverley Naidoo, Jon McGregor and Robert Harris.

目次

  • 1. Five cities: Tokyo, Graham Marks
  • India: A Million Mutinies Now, V. S. Naipaul
  • Pompeii, Robert Harris
  • The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson
  • London, William Blake
  • Composed upon Westminster Bridge, William Wordsworth
  • Activities
  • 2. Spilled Water, Sally Grindley
  • No Turning Back, Beverley Naidoo
  • The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy
  • Estates, Lynsey Hanley
  • A Home from Home, George Alagiah
  • This Landscape, These People, Zulfikhar Ghose
  • Entering the City, Tony Connor
  • A Journey Back to My Hostage Hell, Brian Keenan
  • Activites
  • 3. The Railway Children, ActionAid
  • Sao Paolo - City of the Future, Rory Carroll
  • The Missing, Andrew O'Hagan
  • The Lost Sewer Children, Lutaa Badamkhand
  • Little Dorritt, Charles Dickens
  • Embankment at Night, Before the War, D.H. Lawrence
  • If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
  • Activities
  • 4. Gangs, groups, friends and foes: Tanglewreck, Jeanette Winterson
  • Piper, Meg Harper
  • The Well-dressed Girl Gangs of Paris, Adam Sage
  • The Whisper, Bali Rai
  • The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
  • Box, Mark Powell
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  • Activities
  • 5. Hear me speak: Harassment, Frederick Williams
  • Little Soldier, Bernard Ashley
  • Ex-gang Member Opens LA Airwaves to Street Voices, Andrew Glazer
  • Why Paris is Burning, Amir Taheri
  • Stuart: A Life Backwards, Alexander Masters
  • The Centre of the Universe, Paul Durcan
  • Activities
  • Notes on authors
  • Acknowledgements.

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