City Literacies: Learning to Read Across Generations and Cultures

First Edition. Advanced Reading Copy with publisher's review slip laid-in. A FINE, like-new, bright, clean, tight copy sans flaws. "City Literacies" explores the lives and literacies of different generations of people living in two contrasting areas of London, Spitalfields and The City, at the end of the twentieth century. It contrasts these two 'square miles' of London, which outwardly symbolize the huge difference between poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time." ILLUSTRATED in archival black-and-white photography, graphs and charts with accompanying descriptive captions. 232 pages. GA5.