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Leadville

By Platt , Edward

Book information

Publisher
Pan Macmillan;Picador
Year
2015
ISBN
9781509801244, 1509801243
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1968441 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

"One afternoon in January 1995, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road..." In Leadville, Ed Platt tells the story of Western Avenue from the optimism of its construction in the 1920s to its partial demolition seventy years later. It is a tale of the city and the traffic, of suburbia and the dreams of its inhabitants, and of our senseless and all-consuming love affair with the motor car. 'Platt has created a drama that is not only Orwellian in its attention to what you might call the state of the nation . . . but almost Dickensian in the recording of the colour and pathos of its inhabitants' Tim Lott, The Times

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