Night Haunts A Journey Through the London Night
by Sandhu, SukhdevEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-11-22
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary
Traditional depictions of London at night have imagined a lawless orgy of depravityand pestilence. But is Britainrs"s capital after dark now as bland and unthreatening as anevening in any new provincial town? Sukhdev Sandhu journeys across the city to find outwhether the London night really has been rendered insipid by street lighting and CCTV. Night Haunts seeks to reclaim the mystery and romance of the city-to revitalize thegreat myth of London for a new century.
Author Biography
Sukhdev Sandhu is the author of, among other books, London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City, I’ll Get My Coat, and Night Haunts. He lives in New york and London, and writes for the London Review of Books, Modern Painters and the TLS. He is the award-winning chief film critic of the Daily Telegraph and Associate Professor of English literature at New York University.
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