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A Long Walk to Wimbledon (Paperback)
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A Long Walk to Wimbledon (Paperback)
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Loot Price R462
Discovery Miles 4 620
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First published in 1978, this is a London where the worst has
happened. There have been riots, huge uncontrolled fires, outbreaks
of savage looting, artillery battles, mass flights. The great city
lies three parts deserted, open to marauding gangs and beast-wild
individuals, its highways and landmarks tumbled like ruined
temples. To Mark, comparatively safe up in less troubled Highgate,
there comes a message that his estranged wife is dying over in
Wimbledon, right across on the far side of the dangerous bowl of
the devastated city. Reluctant almost to sticking-point, he sets
out to go to her. His journey is a story of adventure through the
ruins. His immediate business is the simple one of pressing on
through all the debris, always driven because he knows that Jasmine
will die soon. He may never get there: he may be killed by idiotic
accident, torn to pieces by the packs of wild dogs, trapped in one
of the communes that within their stockades have established their
own ruthlessly puritanical disciplines. But the difficulties and
the dangers teach him lessons as he struggles onwards. He learns
from the past. If it was drink, drugs and the dolce vita that had
done for his wife, had not something similar destroyed the city
too? He learns about the present amid its hazards. And he learns,
as he comes at last to the bleak end of his Iong walk, lessons for
a just possible future.
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