Something of the Night (Hardback)
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Short Description for Something of the Night A funny and fascinating night-owl's guide to Britain, exploring the truth of what night means in Britain and what we do in the dark
Full description- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Published: 05 January 2012
- Format: Hardback 304 pages
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- Categories: Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781847376343 ISBN 10: 1847376347
- Sales rank: 730,440
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Full description for Something of the Night
Who can say what the night might bring? Mummy tucking you up with Teddy and a cup of Ovaltine? Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music? Dancing? Or you could be reading in bed, between clean linen sheets before falling into deep and restful sleep and sweet dreams. And who knows; the night might bring romance, or love, or sex, if you play your cards right. Or you might be working; millions of people work at night. If nobody worked at night, Britain would cease to function. Or the night might be cold, haunted, inhuman and wild. When you look up into the night sky, you see that you are nothing. An insignificant mote of dust. Or the night could be all too human. Hen parties in skimpy dresses and fairy wings being slammed into the back of a police van; girls working on street corners in the part of town where the lights don't come on; businessmen going to lap-dancing clubs to forget what waits at home. Or you could die. Most people do die at night. Or you could just lie awake and wait for the dawn. Set over the course of an intoxicated night in a house up a mountain in West Cork, Ian Marchant offers a darkly funny account of what people get up to at night, explores his own experience of a life of night times, and shows us how we all have something of the night about us.
