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An account of London during the last years prior to the rise of digital technology. As such it surveys the capital through its geography, post-punk, New Wave and Style culture between 1979 and 1986.

ISBN: 9781399621922 Category: Tags: , ,

Description

A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early 80s – the last years prior to the rise of the digital city.

An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another.

Haunted bedsits, post-punk entrepreneurs in the Soho Brasserie, occultists in Fitzrovia, Docklands before Canary Wharf, frozen suburbs in the winter of 1980…

Additional information

Weight 0.12 kg
Dimensions 19.6 × 12.8 × 1.4 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

192

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.10857 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K