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J. M. Tyree - Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London - 9781503600034 - V9781503600034
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Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London

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Description for Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.

Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing some of London's most curious locations. As J. M. Tyree wanders deliriously in "the world's most visited city," he rediscovers and reinvents places that have changed drastically since he was a student at Cambridge in the 1990s. Tyree stumbles into the ghosts of Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene, and the pioneers of the British Free Cinema Movement. He offers a new way of seeing familiar landmarks through the lens of film history, and reveals strange ... Read more

This book blends deeply personal writing with a foreigner's observations on a world capital experiencing an unsettling moment of transition. Vanishing Streets builds into an astonishing and innovative multi-layered project combining autobiography, movie madness, and postcard-like annotations on the magical properties of a great city. Tyree argues passionately for London as a cinematic dream city of perpetual fascinations and eccentricities, bridging the past and the present as well as the real and the imaginary.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9781503600034
SKU
V9781503600034
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About J. M. Tyree
J. M. Tyree is the Nonfiction Editor of New England Review and the coauthor of Our Secret Life in the Movies (with Michael McGriff). He has contributed to Sight & Sound, The Believer, Film Quarterly, and the British Film Institute's Film Classics series of books. He was a Keasbey Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow ... Read more

Reviews for Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London
"J. M. Tyree's Vanishing Streets is a journey through the streets of London—and also through loss and failure, and, most of all, through the writer's 20-year love affair with his wife. In turns delightful and heartbreaking, Tyree's is the best kind of travel writing; it is an exploration of how one place can vividly reveal us to ourselves."
Miranda ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London


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