Sunday Best
Travels Through the Day of Rest
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Engelsk
An evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety What if every day was like Sunday?Closed shops and roast dinners. Bulky newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. Strolls to nowhere in ...
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An evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety What if every day was like Sunday?Closed shops and roast dinners. Bulky newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. Strolls to nowhere in particular and visiting snoozing grandparents. Television theme tunes cueing bath time and a sudden dread of the looming week ahead…Through an assortment of rituals and activities, Sundays came to be the unique day in our week – whether tedious, pleasant or somewhere in-between. But how did they change over time? Has anything interesting ever happened on a Sunday? Have we forgotten how to do Sunday? and, in our rushed modern lives, should we now try to recapture that distinctive, unhurried Sunday feel?offering answers to those questions and more through a mix of travelogue and social history, A Month of Sundays entertainingly charts the story of what author Daniel Gray argues is the People’s Day. Told through Sundays whiled away in places from the Hebrides to Hyde Park – via Sunderland, Scarborough, Liverpool and beyond – Gray’s latest book is a charming journey in time and place. A Month of Sundays offers nostalgia, people’s history and affectionate, absorbing writing – a book drenched in the scent of gravy and summoning the faint sound of church bells.
Detaljer
Forlag
HarperNorth
ISBN
9780008628925
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
160
Udgivelsesdato
10-04-2025
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
3290478
EAN nr.
9780008628925
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.