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Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay

by Jeff Young - £12.00  Little Toller Books (2021)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781908213921 | ISBN 10: 1908213922

Jeff Young takes us on a journey through haunted places of memory and loss, summoning the ghosts of loved ones and long-departed heroes who somehow still occupy the disappearing nooks and ruins of the city.
 
Walking through the last remnants of the places he remembers from his childhood, walking through grief, we are accompanied by a Liverpool of revenants, where Malcolm Lowry drinks in derelict saloons, Thomas De Quincey still roams the Everton hills, Bob Dylan sits in a doorway on Dublin Street, and where visionary architects, poets, punks and dreamers act out a bittersweet shadowplay of longing and loss.
 
Ghost Town is a deeply personal book of remembering and forgetting, yet when we cross its threshold we also discover the labyrinth of a master storyteller, whose unforgettable characters gather in our thoughts like moths around lamplight.
 
This new paperback edition contains 16 full colour pages from Jeff’s notebooks.

(Price & availability last checked: October 2021)

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