DOWN & OUT IN SHOREDITCH AND HOXTON

Home (Stewart)

ISBN 10: 1904316263 / ISBN 13: 9781904316268

Published by TheDo-Not Press, 2004

About this Item

Paperback. 'A slice-and-dice splatter novel in which time-travelling streetwalkers hump their way from the trendy east London of today back to the skid row mutilations of the Jack the Ripper era.' 201pp. softcover. F.

Seller Inventory # 12979

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DOWN & OUT IN SHOREDITCH AND HOXTON
• Publisher: TheDo-Not Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904316263
• ISBN 13: 9781904316268
• Binding: Softcover / Paperback
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jack the Ripper and Assoc.

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Synopsis

Down & Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton is a slice-and-dice splatter novel in which time-travelling streetwalkers hump their way from the trendy east London of today back to the skid row mutilations of the Jack The Ripper era.
As gentrification forces the hookers from their age-old beat along Commercial and Wentworth Street, they don Victorian widows' weeds and ply their trade in local graveyards. Amid these psychogeographical dislocations, warm blood isn't the only thing that gets sucked by the night creatures who haunt Home's anti-narrative. This is without doubt the weirdest book ever written, the illegitimate offspring of the Marquis De Sade balling a post-modern literary extremist at a ladies of gangster rap convention. (It also reveals the true identity of Jack The Ripper.)

Review

It's funny, it's intelligent, or at least very learned; and in the strangest way, sincere. I loved it. -- Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian, February 21st, 2004