Lights Out for the Territory (Penguin Street Art) - Softcover

Sinclair, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241965500 ISBN 13: 9780241965504

Publisher: Penguin, 2013

Synopsis

Iain Sinclair's Lights Out For The Territory - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design.

'The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city, to vandalise dormant energies by an act of ambulant signmaking'

Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In Lights Out for the Territory he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life. And in the process he reveals the dark underbelly of a London many of us did not know existed.

'Quite simply one of the finest books about London ever written' Spectator

Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Ghost Milk and Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.

The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller / How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair

About this title

Review:

A book about London; in other words, a book about everything (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

Quite simply one of the finest books about London ever written (Spectator)

Exhilarating, funny, visionary (TLS)

About the Author:

Iain Sinclair is the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry non-fiction, including Lud Heat; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Downriver; Radon Daughters; Lights Out for the Territory; Rodinsky's Room, with Rachel Lichtenstein; Landor's Tower; London Orbital; Dining On Stones; Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk; American Smoke and London Overground. Downriver won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0241965500
• ISBN 13: 9780241965504
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416