Umbrella Man and Other Stories

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What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Dallas, 22 November 1963. The main event is supposed to be downtown, on Main Street. News footage shows office workers leaning out of windows, peering at the motorcade through a blizzard of ticker tape. On the sidewalks, the crowds are fifty deep, a wall of noise and celebration. Everyone thinks this is the place to be.A few blocks away, in Dealey Plaza, the air is different. There is no ticker tape here. The crowds are thin. The only person filming is a dressmaker balanced on a concrete plinth. In this quiet corner, there's a man opening an umbrella even though it isn't raining, a construction worker in a hard hat who claims he was sent here by God, three tramps who stand on the verge of becoming suspects, an unidentified witness known only as the Babushka Lady, and many more.This is not a book about conspiracies or a lone gunman. This is a book about memory, about how we construct our shared history, and about what happens when your life is defined by a single, fleeting moment. It's about a group of real people who opted out of the main event before John F. Kennedy was assassinated, only to find themselves accidental witnesses to the most scrutinised six seconds of the twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-28
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBiteback Publishing
ISBN9781837360253

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MartinFitzgerald is an authorand screenwriter from London. His first book, Ruth and Martin's Album Club(2017), was a collection of essays on classic albums followed by reviews fromcelebrities hearing them for the first time. It featured contributions fromRichard Osman, Ian Rankin, Bonnie Greer and many more.During lockdownin 2020 he wrote his first screenplay, Campbeltown '69, which focuses onPaul and Linda McCartney during the break-up of the Beatles. It's currently inpre-production.His particularinterest is taking well-worn stories, approaching them from a new angle andfinding the comedy and absurdity within them.

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Nuttawuth Muenjohn, Adela McMurray, Mario Fernando, James Hunt, Martin Fitzgerald, Bernard McKenna, Ali Intezari, Sarah Bankins, Jenny Waterhouse, Western Australia) Muenjohn, Nuttawuth (Murdoch University, Adela (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) McMurray, New South Wales) Fernando, Mario (University of Wollongong, New South Wales) Hunt, James (University of Newcastle, New South Wales) Fitzgerald, Martin (University of Newcastle, Bernard (University of Queensland) McKenna, Auckland) Intezari, Ali (Massey University, Sydney) Bankins, Sarah (Macquarie University, New South Wales) Waterhouse, Jenny (University of Newcastle