Soft City by Jonathan Raban

Soft City by Jonathan Raban

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Documents the experience of carving one's own path through the tangle and sprawl of urban metropolitan life. This book recreates the city in its teeming, unknowable variety. Part fact, part fiction, it holds up a mirror to the modern city and finds there a stage for a unique personal drama.

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Soft City by Jonathan Raban

Documents the experience of carving one's own path through the tangle and sprawl of urban metropolitan life. This book recreates the city in its teeming, unknowable variety. Part fact, part fiction, it holds up a mirror to the modern city and finds there a stage for a unique personal drama.

Jonathan Raban, the author of Waxwings and Passage to Juneau, was born in England and has lived in Seattle since 1990. The National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association's Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington are among his accolades.

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ISBN 13 9781860461071
ISBN 10 1860461077
Title Soft City
Author Jonathan Raban
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1998-05-21
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.