Acquired For Development By...: A Hackney Anthology - Brossura

 
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Twenty-five writers, twenty-five different perspectives on the rapidly changing London Borough of Hackney. From gentrification to supermarket sandwiches, Turkish Alevism to inner-city river living, middle-class civil war to pylon romance, Acquired for Development By captures an alternative, insightful and bizarre take on modern London life. Featuring work from: Lee Rourke, Gareth E.Rees, Siddhartha Bose, Molly Naylor, Sam Berkson, Gary Budden, Kit Caless, Gavin James Bower and more.

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"Reaches the parts of Hackney that Iain Sinclair doesn't reach." --Stewart Home, author of Down and out in Shoreditch and Hoxton, Bloodrites of the Bourgeoisie and Red London.

"A beautiful, lucid insight into life in one of the most diverse communities in Britain. Revealing, witty and moving."
--Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class

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