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American Smoke

Journeys to the End of the Light

Iain Sinclair

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
27 August 2014
Rebel writer and cultural visionary Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beat Generation

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.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   300g
ISBN:   9780241955819
ISBN 10:   0241955815
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light

London's own poet laureate * Time Out * One of the finest writers alive -- Alan Moore To overlook Sinclair is to ignore one of the most distinctive voices in Britain * GQ * Sinclair's is a prolix poetics, an amassing of noun-hives whose compacted wit would make the most lexically dexterous rapper envious * Observer * His voice is still urgent. If we know what's good for us, we'll listen * Financial Times *


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