 92 Acharnon Street
John Lucas
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978 0 955010 53 8
Area of interest: Greece
Genre: Biography Date of first publication: 2007
Eland publication date: September 1, 2007
Price: £12.99
WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK AWARD 2008 - Somewhere in the world there may be a noisier street than Acharnon Street; but I hope not. A six-lane highway leading straight into the city centre, it was as busy at three am as at three o'clock in the afternoon. All night long queues of nose-to-tail cars, lorries, coaches, taxis and motorbikes filled Acharnon Street, howling to a sudden halt ... blurting horns when red turned to green ... and then they'd career towards the next set of lights under a haze of exhaust fumes, tyres screeching on the road's marble surface as though the drills of a thousand dentists had been wired up for some megafest of electronic sound.
biography of John Lucas
‘The finest account of a love affair with Greece since Peter Levi's The Hill of Kronos. It ought to be compulsory reading for anyone who orders moussaka and chips in Corfu next summer.'
James Owen, The Daily Telegraph
‘Lucas is a dab hand at social observation ... his language
cackles with colloquial art'
Peter Robinson, Guardian
‘Beautifully observed … an appealing and optimistic view of modern Greece.'
Publishing News
|
