They Walk In The City
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the teeming, indifferent sprawl of 1930s London, two young northerners — Rose Salter and Edward Fielding — arrive separately in the vast city, each searching for something beyond the narrow confines of their Yorkshire upbringings, only to find themselves caught in a web of longing, danger, and the desperate anonymity of modern urban life. J. B. Priestley's They Walk in the City (1936) is a richly observed romantic melodrama that chronicles the struggles of ordinary working-class people against a backdrop of economic hardship and social indifference, capturing the raw heartbeat of a city that simultaneously promises everything and swallows its inhabitants whole. Priestley, one of the great chroniclers of English provincial and urban life, presents here a narrative saturated with social conscience and warmth, blending the conventions of popular romance with a sharp, unsentimental critique of class and capitalism. His prose is direct and muscular, alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of a city both magnificent and brutal, drawing readers into a world where love must fight not only circumstance but the sheer crushing weight of the modern metropolis. They Walk in the City stands as a testament to Priestley's enduring gift for rendering the interior lives of ordinary people with dignity and insight — and its climactic chase through London's shadowy streets will leave readers breathless long after the final page.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the teeming, indifferent sprawl of 1930s London, two young northerners — Rose Salter and Edward Fielding — arrive separately in the vast city, each searching for something beyond the narrow confines of their Yorkshire upbringings, only to find themselves caught in a web of longing, danger, and the desperate anonymity of modern urban life. J. B. Priestley's They Walk in the City (1936) is a richly observed romantic melodrama that chronicles the struggles of ordinary working-class people against a backdrop of economic hardship and social indifference, capturing the raw heartbeat of a city that simultaneously promises everything and swallows its inhabitants whole. Priestley, one of the great chroniclers of English provincial and urban life, presents here a narrative saturated with social conscience and warmth, blending the conventions of popular romance with a sharp, unsentimental critique of class and capitalism. His prose is direct and muscular, alive with the sights, sounds, and smells of a city both magnificent and brutal, drawing readers into a world where love must fight not only circumstance but the sheer crushing weight of the modern metropolis. They Walk in the City stands as a testament to Priestley's enduring gift for rendering the interior lives of ordinary people with dignity and insight — and its climactic chase through London's shadowy streets will leave readers breathless long after the final page.