This is the story of two societies at the point of collapse: an England clinging desperately to the wreckage of its history and Beirut under bombardment. Adam Murray, a young British journalist, returns from assignment in the Middle East to find his old world has disintegrated. Stunned and embittered by the change in his friends, and their aimless world of chatter and heroin, he is persuaded by a mysterious patron to return to the city he loves, now under siege by the Israeli army.
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It was the summer before that first big summer of weddings because Adam was in London; and not simply in London this first early summer evening but hesitating before the closed front door of a house in Hans Place and quite drunk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Donald, George Murray, Clements Street, Galerie Semaan, Green Line, Research Institute, Foreign Office, Sir Joshua, Adam Murray, Corniche Mazraa, Jocelyn Ambrose, Johnny Penrose, Hussein Sarabi, Miss Khalidi, Park Lane, Prime Minister, Sud Engineering, Bruton Street, Holiday Inn, Miss Dr Samira, Ras Beirut, Sanaya Garden, Sloane Street, William Smith, East Beirut New!
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It was the summer before that first big summer of weddings because Adam was in London; and not simply in London this first early summer evening but hesitating before the closed front door of a house in Hans Place and quite drunk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Donald, George Murray, Clements Street, Galerie Semaan, Green Line, Research Institute, Foreign Office, Sir Joshua, Adam Murray, Corniche Mazraa, Jocelyn Ambrose, Johnny Penrose, Hussein Sarabi, Miss Khalidi, Park Lane, Prime Minister, Sud Engineering, Bruton Street, Holiday Inn, Miss Dr Samira, Ras Beirut, Sanaya Garden, Sloane Street, William Smith, East Beirut New!
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- Behind the Lines: Pieces on Writing and Pictures by Michael Hofmann on page 230, and page 231
- The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing by Ronald Carter in Back Matter
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