Soft City: Picador Classic

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ISBN: 9781509823413

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Raban, Jonathan
Pub Date	19/10/2017
Binding	Paperback
Pages	320

Publisher: MACMILLAN

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One of the classics of travel writing, Soft City is an exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living.

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Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever.

With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.

In the city we can live deliberately: inventing and renewing ourselves, carving out journeys, creating private spaces. But in the city we are also afraid of being alone, clinging to the structures of daily life to ward off the chaos around us.

How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City, Jonathan Raban, one of our most acclaimed novelists and travel writers seeks to find out.

'A psychological handbook for urban survival' - Sunday Telegraph