Modern Times, Modern Places
Life & Art in the 20th Century
Peter Conrad
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| 'A blockbuster of a book, a work which will inspire admiration and wonder … writing with equal assurance about poetry, novels, painting, architecture, film and music' | – Noel Malcolm
The Sunday Telegraph |
| '… tells the story of modern cultural history with unflagging freshness, and without an ounce of surplus stylistic fat' | – Terry Eagleton
London Review of Books |
| '… a book with everything in it, a fascinating melange, going in all directions at once' | – Hanif Kureishi
Guardian Books of the Year |
| 'Conrad is stunningly well-informed, compulsively allusive and equipped with the kind of imagination that transforms the base metal of contemporary history into pure gold' | – Robert McCrum
The Observer |
Also by Peter Conrad:
At Home in Australia
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500281513 | | ISBN-13 978-0500281512 | | | | 23.5 x 16.9 cm | | Paperback | | 752pp | | 166 illustrations | | First published 1999 | | | | £12.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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