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Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of five children, a pro-flogging magistrate, a local doctor, and a 75-year-old widower who spent "an hour or two in bed each week with one or other of about twelve different ladies I meet at our church". The inhabitants of "Providence" opened their hearts, revealing all their quirks, emotions and prejudices. These interviews prove that extraordinary stories are found not only in deserts and jungles: even amid the bleak sprawl of South London, Tony Parker discovered a community that is diverse and enthralling.
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In twenty years of reviewing this is the book that has lodged deepest in my mind. -- Craig Brown, The Spectator
It is just about impossible to overpraise this book. -- Anne Smith, The New Statesman
The greatest oral historian of our day. -- The Times
a string of fascinating soliloquies from people who would normally be regarded as too inarticulate to make their voices heard. -- Max Davidson, The Daily Telegraph
it is a triumph. -- Peter Wilmott, The Times Literary Supplement
It is just about impossible to overpraise this book. -- Anne Smith, The New Statesman
The greatest oral historian of our day. -- The Times
a string of fascinating soliloquies from people who would normally be regarded as too inarticulate to make their voices heard. -- Max Davidson, The Daily Telegraph
it is a triumph. -- Peter Wilmott, The Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherEland Publishing Ltd
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0907871577
- ISBN 13 9780907871576
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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PEOPLE OF PROVIDENCE: A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants
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Eland Publishing Ltd, London
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Thus. This new copy is bound in uniform cream lettered card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Over a period of eighteen months in the early 1980s, Tony Parker interviewed the residents of a housing estate in South London. He succeeded in getting a wide assortment of personalities to talk freely -a vagrant, two policemen, an oft-convicted fence and mother of five, a pro-flogging magistrate, a local doctor and a 75-year-old widower, who spent an hour or two a week in bed with any of a dozen women he had met at church. The interviews are continuously surprising, and prove that extraordinary stories, insight and articulacy are to be found in the most ordinary of places. Tony Parker recorded these individuals so faithfully that you feel you can hear their voices. Together they create a human symphony of the everyday, in all its courageous diversity. Ref UUU 1. Seller Inventory # 030678
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