London: City of Disappearances - Hardcover

Sinclair, Iain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241142997 ISBN 13: 9780241142998

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2006

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About this title

Synopsis:

London is a city of disappearances and fallible memories. Alongside the contemporary city, of noise and celebrity, is that other city: of the dead, the unvoiced, the erased. Here there are fabulous identities which, freed from their mundane reality, survive as eternal fictions, and urban myths with more blood and vigour than the contemporary cartoons of manufactured notoriety. Iain Sinclair has long been fascinated by interzones, cracks, crannies, 'lost' biographies and myths of place. In "London: City of Disappearances" he turns away from official versions and approved histories, and, with the help of Tibor Fischer, Rachel Lichtenstein, Nicholas Royle, Sarah Wise and others, brings to light the fugitive scraps, ragpicker's bundles, faded newspaper cuttings and patterns in the dust.

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: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0241142997
• ISBN 13: 9780241142998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672
• Editor: Sinclair Iain