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Capital

By Maureen Duffy

Capital Contemporary literature

Capital

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Description
A lone Londoner maps the city, hearing beneath its surface the urgent whispers of the past. As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future. Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet an enlightened and mystically knowing amateur archaeologist, seeks to understand the destruction of London in the Dark Ages, hoping to predict the capital's future. A university historian, writes to his absent wife as he prepares for the start of term. He once rejected for publication a 'crackpot' article by Meepers, and is alarmed to find he has appeared at his first lecture. And now the man seems to be following him everywhere he goes. In a dazzling mixture of contemporary life and period speech, London is illuminated through the voices of Neanderthal man, Saxon kings, anonymous invaders, the flea that spread the Black Death and the transsexual King Elizabeth.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2001-04-05
Publication Date:
2001-04-05
Publisher:
Puffin Classics
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1860468306
ISBN13:
9781860468308
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
136 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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