{"product_id":"9781935807339","title":"London Spirits: Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecertain spirit. \u003cem\u003eLondon Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e pays homage to this spirit using narrators (some dead, some alive; some historical, some fictional) who have a particularly interesting story to tell about their life and times in this great metropolis. There’s Philip Clark, plumber to Westminster Abbey, who recounts a “cock-eyed” version of William and Mary’s Coronation in 1689. There’s Virginia Woolf who takes one last walk through Regent’s Park in her waning days and revisits her past with powerful stream-of-consciousness memories. There’s a contented suburban mother-of-two who is suddenly forced to confront her heady, “romantic” days as a London University student twenty years earlier. Other spirits include an Egyptian mummy in the British Museum; the Celtic warrior queen—Boadicea--at the millennium celebrations; a black British writer reflecting on his role as an artist in response to the racially-motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993; and an eccentric stranger in a pub who shares similar traits as the painter, Joseph Turner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heidelberg Graphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033410879728,"sku":"9781935807339","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935807339_p0.jpg?v=1763657829","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935807339","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}