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City of the Mind: A Novel. City of the Mind.: Penelope Lively. Grove Press, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the Author: Penelope Lively.  · City of the Mind is classic Penelope Lively: thoroughly readable and engaging, thought-provoking and stimulating. First published in , it is concerned with the changing face of London, but is more than an urban melodrama; in typical Lively fashion, /5. City of the Mind Paperback – December 5, by. Penelope Lively (Author) › Visit Amazon's Penelope Lively Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Penelope Lively (Author) out of 5 stars. 24 ratings/5(24).

CITY OF THE MIND. by Penelope Lively ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 11, From the author of the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger (), etc.: a serious, self-involved meditation on transience and immutability, with a map of London—present and past—laid on top. Matthew Halland, an architect undergoing a period of low- level mourning over the. This is the motif of the two works presented in this analysis: City of the Mind and London: A Biography. The layer cake in both Penelope Lively's novel and Peter Ackroyd's historical tract is London. Lively discovers the many strata of the capital by following the main character of her novel, Matthew Halland, around London. City of the Mind is the second novel by Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively. 'This is the city in which everything is simultaneous. There is no yesterday, nor tomorrow, merely weather, and decay, and construction.' In London's changing heartland, architect Matthew Halland is aware of how the past and the present blend. It stirs.

City of the Mind is the “lucid and complex, meditative and playful, concise and expansive” second novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author (The Washington Post Book World). Read more Read less. City of the Mind: A Novel. City of the Mind.: Penelope Lively. Grove Press, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews. Matthew Halland is an architect, intimately involved with the new face of the. City of the Mind is a novel written by Penelope Lively. It is an introspective novel which offers an attempt to explain the varying and complex relationships between the past and the present. [2].