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City of the Mind

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1991

Page count
  
220

Publisher
  
André Deutsch

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Publication date
  
1991

Pages
  
220

Author
  
Penelope Lively

ISBN
  
0233986618

Country
  
United Kingdom

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City of the Mind is a 1991 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.

Plot

Through the daily life and thoughts of Matthew Halland, a recently divorced architect suffering from his relationship with his own past the reader is introduced to various characters he meets during his travels around London and given glimpses of the city's past and the relevance of that past to the present. The presence in his life of his young daughter Jane and the promise of renewed romance with a woman he encounters by chance serve to save him from descending into loneliness and despair.

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City of the Mind Wikipedia