London : city of disappearances 🔍
edited by Iain Sinclair Hamish Hamilton Ltd. (an Imprint of Penguin Books), 1st, First Edition, US, 2006
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'A book full of richness, unexpected enticements, short sharp shocks and breathtaking writing' Guardian Welcome to the real, unauthorised the disappeared, the unapproved, the unvoiced, the mythical and the all-but forgotten. The perfect companion to the city. 'Exhilarating, truly wonderful, a cavalcade of eloquent writing. London demands an anthology like this to remind us of the irascible quirkiness of its residents, and we have Sinclair to thank for marshalling such a perverse and ultimately pleasurable exercise' Independent on Sunday
Alternative author
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-
Alternative publisher
London: Hamish Hamilton
Alternative publisher
Ladybird Books Ltd
Alternative publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
London, England, 2006
Alternative description
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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655 p. : 24 cm
date open sourced
2023-06-28
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