Urban voices : a collection of writing on city life

Author(s)

• Gould, Mike

Bibliographic Information

Urban voices : a collection of writing on city life

edited by Mike Gould

（Cambridge collections）

Cambridge University Press, 2009

• : paperback

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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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Details

• NCID: BB30944801
• ISBN:
  • 9780521730839
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 232 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 808.80321732
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : City and town life -- Literary collections
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA89106592