"The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet "How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL-E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city's textual waste? A psycho-geographer (from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into the mainstream)? He's all of these, and more." Now, for the first time, the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American shores for his long-awaited engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travelers. A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, American Smoke is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and others, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports, and strange adventures. With American Smoke, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary"-- Provided by publisher

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Iain Sinclair, 1943-

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Penguin Books, Limited

Ladybird Books Ltd

North Point Press

Hamish Hamilton

Hill & Wang

Penguin Uk

Macmillan

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., [N.p.], 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

United States, United States of America

New York, NY, 2014

London, 2013

2, 2014

lg2691223

sources:
urn:isbn:9780241145272

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In American Smoke , Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats.
****On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes and the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories and unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end.
'A transatlantic odyssey . . . grippingly haunted' Observer
'A challenging, maddening, fascinating journey . . . enjoy Sinclair's poetic language and subtly warped sense of humour. Rich and engrossing' Metro
'Sit back and feel the invigorating pulse of beautifully crafted prose . . . wonderful' Daily Telegraph
'Iain Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure' Robert Macfarlane
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, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire and Ghost Milk .
**
Review His voice is still urgent. If we know what's good for us, we'll listen Financial Times Sinclair's is a prolix poetics, an amassing of noun-hives whose compacted wit would make the most lexically dexterous rapper envious Observer To overlook Sinclair is to ignore one of the most distinctive voices in Britain GQ One of the finest writers alive -- Alan Moore London's own poet laureate Time Out
About the Author
Iain Sinclair's books include London Orbital, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Downriver (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award) Ghost Milk and American Smoke. He lives in Hackney, East London.
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke .
Completing the itinerary begun with Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and continued with Ghost Milk , Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with American Smoke , his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travellers.
In a book filled with bad journeysand fated decisions, this is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder and more, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports and strange adventures.
With American Smoke Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary.
Praise for Ghost Milk:
'Inventive, dazzling, arresting. A superb chronicle of an impossible dream...

<p><b>The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet<br></b><br>"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in <i>The Guardian</i>. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL-E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city's textual waste? A psycho-geographer (from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into the mainstream)? He's all of these, and more."<br> Now, for the first time, the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American shores for his long-awaited engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travelers.<br> A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, <i>American Smoke </i>is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and others, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports, and strange adventures.<br> With <i>American Smoke</i>, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary.</p>

Iain Sinclair breaks for the border with 'American Smoke' his first full engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American beats and their fellow travellers, echoed as always in the mythologies of London, through which so many of them passed

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