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2 Ennerdale Drive: An Unauthorised Biography

2 Ennerdale Drive: An Unauthorised Biography

by RosaAinley (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $14.67
Synopsis

2 Ennerdale Drive is a memoir of a house and the family that lived there; a work of text and image encompassing architecture, social and personal history, town planning, photography and representation, carving a space within and between new forms of memoir, cultural studies and creative non-fiction. The house in north London, built during the phenomenal interwar wave of suburban development, begins an exploration of public and private lives, architectural and family narrative, charting territory between documented evidence, personal and cultural memory, association and emotional response. 2 Ennerdale Drive questions the veracity accorded to 'documents' produced across institutional, public and private family contexts. Textual analyses of images relating to the house, the family (and its business: theatre) frame each chapter, generating stories and responses to the factual and the remembered. Visits to archives and to other houses document the existence and/or absence of such material. An epilogue locates the author, a family member and sometime narrator, in the frame and offers, perhaps, a final privileged glance into the family archive.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 173
 Publisher: Zero Books
Published: 01 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 1846945607
ISBN 13: 9781846945601

Media Reviews
2 Ennerdale Drive tells the story of the author's family through the spaces of their lives, weaving the texture of personalities - some touching, many eccentric - out of the well-worn details of London's built fabric. Part social and architectural history, part personal memoir, Rosa Ainley takes the reader on a fascinating journey through her past which is both touching and bright. She digs deep, in search of lost moments, into the intimate corners of her private life. And yet the anecdotes she recounts, the photographs she muses over, and the homes she visits, are not only of interest to a member of the Ainley family, they offer a humorous and intelligent view of London's recent architectural past, suburban and theatrical, and a critical reflection on what it is to write a biography of one's own family. (Professor Jane Rendell, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)
Author Bio
Rosa Ainley is a writer with a background in architecture and photography. Her published work ranges from short story to non-fiction, from academic texts and guidebooks to sound installations.