Scenes from Daily Life

A Continuing Journal (Cv Social Studies, Book 12)

By: N.P. James

Narrated by: Laurie Dennison

First published as Journal of the Gallery London in 1993 with revised editions in 1998 and 2001, more than 400 entries chronicle the life of the city; a powerfully driven arena of dysfunctional experience. Episodes record incidents and encounters; in the streets, with shoppers and travelers, in the landscape, and in scenes of social and internal life. As the journal develops, fact and fiction blend into a filmic sequence of events. Reality is colored by a seamless flow of messages of promise and dereliction that gently gather strands of the communal imagination into a protective shell.

Table of contents:

• Part One: "Studio-Life"
• Part Two: "In Service"
• Part Three: "The Resort"
• Part Four: "Incident and a Memory"
• Part Five: "Holiday Island"
• Part Six: "Clouds and Suns"
• Part Seven: "Intervals"
• Part Eight: "Cross Connections"
• Part Nine: "Murmurings from the Vale of Albion"
• Part Ten: "Chronicler"
• Part Eleven: "Cross Country"
• Part Twelve: "Madeira Embroidery"
• "In the City"

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