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Index
Front Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
PREFACE
PART I. THE WRITER WHO BECAME A REEF
1. Reading Uwe Johnson in Kent, 1970–3
2. On the Move but Nobody’s Refugee
3. The Border: The Distance: The Difference
4. Praise and Denunciation: A Pain for All Zealots
5. New York City: Beginning Anniversaries
6. Leaving Berlin
PART II. THE ISLAND: MODERNITY’S MUDBANK
7. 1974: Looking out from Bellevue Road
8. Neither St Helena nor Hong Kong
9. Shellness: A Point with Three Warnings
10. Coincidence on England’s Baltic Shore
11. Leysdown: The “On-Sea” Scenario
12. Rolls without Royce: Leysdown Aloft
13. Two Ways Down to the Sea: The Trade Union Baron and the Suffragists
PART III. THE FIVE TOWNS OF SHEERNESS: DEFINITELY NOT BERLIN, NEW YORK OR ROME
14. Moving In
15. Blue-Faced and Shivering: A Town on England’s Fatal Shore?
16. Fritz J. Raddatz’s Perambulation
17. Becoming “Sheerness-on-Sea”: The Scramble for a Second Horse
18. “Black Tuesday”: The Day the World Ended
19. First Moves on the Afterlife: The Modernist Chair Comes to Sheerness
PART IV. CULTURE: THREE ISLAND ENCOUNTERS
20. All Praise to the Sheerness Times Guardian
21. A Painter of Our Time
22. A Job for the Town Photographer
PART V. SOCIETY: “I DON’T WANT TO GET PERSONAL”
23. Becoming “Charlie”
24. Sheerness as “Moral Utopia”? (On Not Meeting Ray Pahl)
25. “It’s Your Opinion”: A Postcard for the Kent Evening Post
26. Implosion: Two Stories from the Site
PART VI. THE STORM OF MEMORY: A NEW USE FOR THE SASH WINDOWS OF NORTH KENT
27. Unjamming Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass
28. Sea Defences: From God’s Will to “Puddicombe’s Folly”
29. Beach, Sea and “The View of a Memory”
30. “What is that thing?”: The SS Richard Montgomery and the “Caprice” of Bombs
31. The Doomsday Shuffle
32. Becoming Unfathomable: The Bomb Ship as “Murky Reality”
33. Explosion: From the Richard Montgomery to the Cap Arcona
34. Triumph of the Sheerness Wall
AFTERWORD
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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