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You can't choose your family but you can choose your team

The Cripples is a powerful example of Lowry’s ability to capture the human condition with raw honesty

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Shock City sport featuring detail from LS Lowry'sFocusing on Manchester's mills and warehouses, its main trading institution (the Royal Exchange), its magnificent Gothic Revival Town Hall, and its late Gothic Revival Rylands Library, this book explores these iconic buildings alongside paintings, prints, maps, and photographs of the city from the mid 18th century to the 1920s. Crinson provides analysis of buildings and images, urban spaces and new institutions, technology and industrial pollution,