In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities Esquire 5 hrs ago
Hot Stew, describing a character s pleasant feeling of his own largesse as he doles out a generous tip. Anyone living in a capitalist system like the one Mozley lambasts in this novel knows one thing to be true about wealth: it all too rarely flows downward.
Four years after the publication of her Booker Prize-nominated debut,
Elmet, Mozely returns with her sophomore effort in Hot Stew, a sprawling, ambitious work of social realism about Londoners whose messy lives converge in the city s storied neighborhood of Soho. Millionaire developer Agatha Howard is dead-set on blank-slating a ramshackle building to transform it into luxury condominiums, but first, she must evict the longtime tenants, including the workers and patrons of the property s secret brothel, as well as the barflies at its popular ground floor pub.
In Hot Stew, Fiona Mozley Takes Aim at Gentrifying Cities
Mozley discusses why the medieval period inspires her, how Charles Dickens influenced this book, and what she hopes and fears for modern cities riven by income inequality.
Hot Stew, describing a character s pleasant feeling of his own largesse as he doles out a generous tip.
Anyone living in a capitalist system like the one Mozley lambasts in this novel knows one thing to be true about wealth: it all too rarely flows downward.
Four years after the publication of her Booker Prize-nominated debut,
Elmet, Mozely returns with her sophomore effort in