Covent Garden: The Untold Story, Dispatches From The English Culture War 1945-2000
by Lebrecht, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, New York 2000. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 580pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (some highlighting as well as ink notes on back endpaper). This book recounts 'the fruitless struggle to turn England into a cultural nation' showing how London's Opera House is linked to people in power' who peddle their influence at the heart of the English establishment. It show how 'England rose from heroic poverty to heartless wealth'.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153763
- Title
- Covent Garden: The Untold Story, Dispatches From The English Culture War 1945-2000
- Author
- Lebrecht, Norman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, New York 2000
- Keywords
- english england london
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THE CROSS Art + Books
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
About THE CROSS Art + Books
THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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