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Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
hardback
Published:
6 March, 2007
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780226030937 |
| ISBN10 | 0226030938 |
| Number Of Pages | 278 |
| Item Weight | 408 g |
| Product Dimensions | 140 x 25 x 218 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | The University of Chicago Press |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
Media Reviews
A gem....James Attlee's scholarly, reflective and sympathetic journey up the Cowley Road... blends a vivid account of daily life, fluid and unsettling, in a modern British town with powerful allegorical reflections on the connections between past and present, time and space, and high culture and the hard scrabble world that sustains it. - Economist The attraction, for Attlee, is that the Cowley Road 'is both unique and nothing special'; the resulting book is unique and very special.... Residents of East Oxford can be proud to have this eccentric advocate and eloquent explorer in their midst. - Geoff Dyer, Guardian James Attlee grabs our hand and drags us down Cowley Road in Oxford, determined to prove that it is not a stuffy, medieval, Masterpiece Theatre town. All the messy glories of Cowley Road - pubs and porn shops alike - come to life in this work, which becomes a meditation on home and the nature of pilgrimage. - National Geographic Traveler The fish-out-of water travelogue is a staple of the bookstore, but James Attlee... has set himself a different task: to be the fish, and to give a detailed description of the properties of the water.... Attlee's reading is deep and wide and engagingly circuitous, and this book frequently provides the delights of discovery that make any adventure worth undertaking. - Rebecca Mead, Bookforum Attlee paints an iridescent picture of a new Oxford that no guide book has yet captured. - Richard B. Woodward, New York Times
Author's Bio
James Attlee works in art publishing in London and is coauthor of Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between.