Title: The Soul of the CityAuthor: John McMillanPublisher: iUniversePages: 310Genre: Literary FictionFormat: Kindle
The
Soul of the City is a tale of two cities, Belfast and London, in the
heady, liberating days of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young Jim
Mitchell moves through a succession of jobs, girlfriends and
apartments in the quest for personal fulfillment and his dream of
becoming a writer in the face of often dispiriting circumstances.
There is the trauma of his affair with Maureen, an older, married
woman, and the trap of his career on the unrelenting white-collar
production line of the “Ministry of Truth”, against the
background of civil rights protest and the onset of the troubles in
Belfast.
Escaping
to the space and freedom of London, Jim tries to live the dream of
the bohemian writer but all too soon there is the pressing need to
earn a living in the more mundane occupations on offer in the
metropolis. Just when all seems lost, Jim meets and falls in love
with the beautiful Anglo- Irish student Bridget and is drawn into an
exciting student-hippy milieu of experimentation, idealism and fun.
However,
such pleasures are by definition transient and the young couple, Jim
and Bridget, must strike out on their own, exploring love, intimacy
and enlightenment together in their ongoing search for the soul of
the city.
John
McMillan writes with an unfailing eye for the telling detail and an
irrepressible native humour. He balances an acute social awareness
and sense of history with a strong lyrical feeling for the underlying
meaning and beauty of life.
The
search for the soul of the city is nothing less than the search for
the soul of a man and a woman in our time.
Monday,
June 2
Tuesday,
June 3
Wednesday,
June 4
Thursday,
June 5
Friday,
June 6
Monday,
June 9
Tuesday,
June 10
Wednesday,
June 11
Thursday,
June 12
Friday,
June 13
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