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Everyone Is Watching

`Beautiful, kaleidoscopic.. .everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on` Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city where everyone is watching, waiting to see what will happen next. 1967. Robert Mapplethorpe knows he is an artist. From his childhood home in Queens he yearns for the heat and excitement of the city, the press of other people`s bodies. He wants to be watched, he wants to be known. 1891. Walt Whitman has already found fame, and has settled into his own sort of old age. Still childlike, still passionate, he travels with his friend and biographer Bucke to the city he has always adored, the scene of his greatest triumphs and rejections. 1922. Robert Moses is
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` Beautiful, kaleidoscopic.. .everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on` Eimear Mc Bride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city where everyone is watching, waiting to see what will happen next. 1967. Robert Mapplethorpe knows he is an artist. From his childhood home in Queens he yearns for the heat & excitement of the city, the press of other people`s bodies. He wants to be watched, he wants to be known. 1891. Walt Whitman has already found fame, & has settled into his own sort of old age. Still childlike, still passionate, he travels with his friend & biographer Bucke to the city he has always adored, the scene of his greatest triumphs & rejections. 1922. Robert Moses is a man with a vision. Standing on the edge of Long Island he knows what it could become. Walking down a street in Brooklyn he sees its future. He is the man who will build modern New York. 2013. Edmund White is back in New York. It`s the city of his youth, of his life & loves. He remembers days of lazy pleasure, nights of ecstasy & euphoria. But years have gone by since then. Everyone is Watching is a novel about the men & women who have defined New York. Through the lives & perspectives of these great creators, artists & thinkers, & through other iconic works of art that capture its essence, New York itself solidifies. Complex, rich, sordid, tantalizing, it is constantly changing & evolving. Both intimate & epic in its sweep, Everyone is Watching is a love letter to New York & its people
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White - A colour combining all colours
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Stanfords
Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.
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