«Like us, these streets are left to their own stark destiny. Birds abstain from song in post-war industrial Manchester, where the 1960's will not swing, and where the locals are the opposite of worldly. More brittle and less courteous than anywhere else on earth, Manchester is the old fire wheezing its last, where we all worry ourselves soulless, forbidden to be romantic.»
À página 4 é perceptível que se trata de um clássico. Ter vivido é muito importante mas é a linguagem que faz a diferença.
