{"product_id":"vanishing-streets-9781503600034","title":"Vanishing Streets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"J. M. Tyree's \u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey through the streets of London—and also through loss and failure, and, most of all, through the writer's 20-year love affair with his wife. In turns delightful and heartbreaking, Tyree's is the best kind of travel writing; it is an exploration of how one place can vividly reveal us to ourselves.\" -- Miranda Kennedy * author of \u003ci\u003eSideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is difficult to classify—parts travelogue, guidebook, and criticism, maybe even a bit of memoir—but this strange and wonderful book is easy to like. J. M. Tyree writes with wit and insight about everything from Free Cinema to his marriage to gentrification. These idiosyncratic tours of London create a mosaic portrait of his city that feels like a gift to its reader.\" -- Justin St. Germain * author of \u003ci\u003eSon of a Gun\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, sensual, and multi-directional take from a masterful writer who knows his craft, knows himself, and knows London. London is my favorite city on earth, and this book is a treasure house for all who adore this capital city.\" -- Jay Parini * author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Station\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e re-maps London. As both intimate guide and wide-eyed outsider, J. M. Tyree dwells in the places and histories lesser writers would ignore. Through his wry photos, searching intelligence, and witty, incisive prose, he imbues every street and every sentence with wonder and mystery. London is the most-visited city in the world. Open this book and see it anew.\" -- Will Boast * author of \u003ci\u003eEpilogue: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses so many different forms: it's a travelogue through an endlessly fascinating city, a deeply affecting memoir, and an elegy for London. J. M. Tyree's voice is myriad as well: wise and ironic and funny and frank and searing and honest. Readers will want to remain in Tyree's London long after they finish this book, drunk with wandering and wondering.\" -- Jesmyn Ward * author of \u003ci\u003eSalvage the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMen We Reaped\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Tyree's lyrical prose is distinctly cinematic, describing sweeping landscapes interspersed with tight shots, close-ups, and all the drama and symbolism of character quests with director's commentary, resulting a fresh portrait of London and an intriguing travelogue.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"J. M. Tyree writes gorgeously, hauntingly of London. He enchants with ghostly byways, mythical wellsprings of memory, and astonishing secret civic trapdoors that lead to taproots of personal and cinematic identity. This is a dreamy subterranean work where one can equally find echoes of other cities—yours and mine—buried alive, subconsciously in sync with the great vanishing streets of a great city.\" -- Guy Maddin * director of \u003ci\u003eMy Winnipeg\u003c\/i\u003e *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409382973783,"sku":"9781503600034","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781503600034.jpg?v=1730506613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vanishing-streets-9781503600034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}