Downriver - Softcover

Sinclair, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099576414 ISBN 13: 9780099576419

Publisher: Vintage, 1995

Synopsis

The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. DOWNRIVER is a savage, satirical quest to understand how people's lives, a government's policies, and a legendary urban waterland conspire together in a boggling display of self-destruction. (1995-02-06)

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Review:

The Thames runs through Downriver like a great, wet wound. This is a work of conspicuous and glorious ill-humour. Something is happening in this text that makes it necessary to go on (Angela Carter London Review of Books)

One of those idiosyncratic literary texts that revivify the language, so darn quotable as to be the reader's delight and the reviewer's nightmare (Guardian)

About the Author:

Iain Sinclair has been a rare book dealer, parks gardener, and all-purposes labourer across East London. In the 1970s he ran Albion Village Press, publishing Brian Catling and Chris Torrance, as well as several volumes of his own poetry. More recently he has written a number of television films, including The Cardinal and the Corpse, made with Christopher Petit for Channel 4. His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, Sight and Sound and Modern Painters.

Downriver won the 1992 Encore Award for the year's best second novel and also the James Tait Black Memorial Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0099576414
• ISBN 13: 9780099576419
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416