This Won't Be a Book

Matteo Manzini

Description

What's the foundation of every manuscript? Ideas? No. A desk? Yes. Find a desk and the rest will marvellously happen. Follow Matteo's chase for a writing desk while London has just fallen into its COVID-19 lockdown and hear about lists, numbers, urban walks, awareness, love, music, musicians and drawings. A lot of drawings. For those living or having lived in London, many elements of this story will hopefully sound familiar, with the high risk of feeling teleported in anonymous corners of the city. For those passionate about illustrations, and about black and white drawings in particular, there are 36 of them pairing the written content and ready to walk the readers through the length of this eBook.

Sujets

• Gran Londres
• Greater London
• Grand Londres
• London

Informations

• Publié par: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781838596644
• Langue: English

Extrait

THIS WON’T BE A BOOK
A 7 Day Challenge Partially Accepted at the Time of COVID-19 London Lockdown
Matteo Manzini
Copyright © 2020 Matteo Manzini

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Writing: Matteo Manzini.
Illustrations: Alessandro Bonaccorsi.
Idea and directions: Matteo Manzini.

ISBN 9781838596644

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I want to thank Chiara for turning the light on, Alessandro for adding a visual dimension to my words, Dom and Gary and Tom for the early reading, Christian for the patience in stitching things together. Thank you all.

“... but there was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them;
they ceased to be clouds at all. It got just really foggy.”
(David Foster Wallace “The Pale King”)

“... every crisis represents not only danger but also opportunity.”
(Eckhart Tolle “The Power of Now”)
Contents
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