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.
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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 and Edge of the Orison. He lives in Hackney, East London.
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I was very disappointed in this book.Almost every page has printing errors and the book is in too large a font. Writing is very uneven in style and content. I am a fan of Iain Sinclair-but his editing of the pieces is poor. I want a refund !
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In the late 1930s, as an ex-art student, I was often in the West End of London, a frequenter of galleries and exhibitions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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King's Cross, Grub Street, Michael Moorcock, Sir Seaton, Sarah Wise, Ladbroke Grove, Charing Cross Road, Nova Scotia Gardens, Notting Hill, Captain Zodiac, Bethnal Green, Friends of Yiddish, Henry Marriage, New York, Oxford Street, Arts Lab, Better Books, Brick Lane, East London, South London, Trafalgar Square, Camden Town, Charing Cross Hospital, Kentish Town, Poor Law New!
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In the late 1930s, as an ex-art student, I was often in the West End of London, a frequenter of galleries and exhibitions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drif field, coal hopper Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King's Cross, Grub Street, Michael Moorcock, Sir Seaton, Sarah Wise, Ladbroke Grove, Charing Cross Road, Nova Scotia Gardens, Notting Hill, Captain Zodiac, Bethnal Green, Friends of Yiddish, Henry Marriage, New York, Oxford Street, Arts Lab, Better Books, Brick Lane, East London, South London, Trafalgar Square, Camden Town, Charing Cross Hospital, Kentish Town, Poor Law New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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