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'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.'So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today.This is not a book about bricks and mortar, or about how a house becomes a home with the right scatter of cushions.This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It is also a wonderful backwards glace at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in.Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
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My Life in Houses, Margaret Forster
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- Titul
- My Life in Houses
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Margaret Forster
- Vydavateľ
- Random House UK
- Rok vydania
- 2014
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 264
- ISBN10
- 070118910X
- ISBN13
- 9780701189105
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Historické téma, História, Skutočné príbehy, Životopisy, Autobiografie & Pamäti, Britská literatúra
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- 4,05 z 5
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- 'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.'So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today.This is not a book about bricks and mortar, or about how a house becomes a home with the right scatter of cushions.This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives. It is also a wonderful backwards glace at the changing nature of our accommodation: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to houses today being converted back into single dwellings, all open-plan spaces and bringing the outside in.Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.