{"product_id":"vanishing-streets-j-m-tyree-9781503600034","title":"Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing some of London's most curious locations. As J. M. Tyree wanders deliriously in \"the world's most visited city,\" he rediscovers and reinvents places that have changed drastically since he was a student at Cambridge in the 1990s. Tyree stumbles into the ghosts of Alfred Hitchcock, Graham Greene, and the pioneers of the British Free Cinema Movement. He offers a new way of seeing familiar landmarks through the lens of film history, and reveals strange nooks and tiny oddities in out-of-the-way places, from a lost film by John Ford supposedly shot in Wapping to the beehives hidden in Tower Hamlets Cemetery, an area haunted by a translation error in W. G. Sebald's \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book blends deeply personal writing with a foreigner's observations on a world capital experiencing an unsettling moment of transition. \u003ci\u003eVanishing Streets\u003c\/i\u003e builds into an astonishing and innovative multi-layered project combining autobiography, movie madness, and postcard-like annotations on the magical properties of a great city. Tyree argues passionately for London as a cinematic dream city of perpetual fascinations and eccentricities, bridging the past and the present as well as the real and the imaginary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. M. Tyree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503600033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503600034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Redwood Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 129","brand":"J. M. Tyree","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44124287402239,"sku":"9781503600034","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bbf92c3c-01e4-48de-9966-ca08f779ccb4.jpg?v=1687435864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vanishing-streets-j-m-tyree-9781503600034","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}