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City of the Mind is a 1991 novel written by Penelope Lively. It is an introspective novel which offers an attempt to explain the varying and complex relationships between the past and the present. Plot
- Penelope Lively
- 1991
1 gen 1988 · City of the Mind by Penelope Lively, adapted for BBC Radio. Matthew Halland is the hero of this interesting, meditative, thought provoking narrative, dramatized for BBC Radio. The first line announces the main theme – the dimensions of our existence: breadth, width, depth and…time.
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- Penelope Lively
1 mar 2022 · City of the mind by Lively, Penelope, 1933-Publication date 2010 Publisher London : Hamish Hamilton Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. 231 pages ; 22 cm. Story of architect Matthew Holland picking up his life after his divorce, loving his daughter, and falling in love with Sarah in present day London, England.
In City of the Mind set in modern London, architect Matthew Halland resolves both personal and professional crises in a narrative that is punctuated with flashbacks to previous eras.
City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.'.
City of the Mind is a travelogue through historic neighborhoods of London; a romance that turns city streets into the Forest of Arden; a ghost story that transports us to centuries past; an inquisition into the nature of time. . . .
