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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project

Autor Iain Sinclair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2012
InGhost MilkIain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012

Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics -Ghost Milkexplores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.

'Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists'Daily Telegraph

'A scorching diatribe'Independent

'Sinclair views London through a distortingly surreal lens; a striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted from even the most hopeless of London locations. For those unfamiliar with Sinclair's work,Ghost Milkis a good place to start'Spectator

'Inventive, dazzling, arresting. Sinclair lays bare the human consequences and mourns the disruption of communities, the erasure of history and of a sense of place and continuity. This is Sinclair at his best. He is the archetypal whistleblower, a pricker of vainglorious and self-promoting hyperbole. A superb chronicle of an improbable dream that has descended to a nightmare. It is essential reading for all Londoners curious about their city' Dan Cruickshank,New Statesman

'Be warned:Ghost Milkreads like some whimsical meld of the poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board. Highly alienating'Evening Standard

'A wounding assault' DJ Taylor,Independent on Sunday

'Sinclair's literary excavations of London's memory go deeper than anyone's'Time Out

'Brilliant' Robert Macfarlane,Guardian

Iain Sinclair is the author ofDownriver(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 EmpireandGhost Milk. He is also the editor ofLondon: City of Disappearances.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141039640
ISBN-10: 0141039647
Pagini: 432
Ilustrații: To be confirmed
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Iain Sinclairis the author of numerous works of fiction, poetry non-fiction, includingLud 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 EmpireandGhost Milk;American SmokeandLondon Overground.Downriverwon the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.

Recenzii

Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists
Dazzling . . . Sinclair's explorations by foot are highly engaging and anything but pedestrian
Brilliant, superb. Anger drives the book forwards. Sinclair has gone from cult author to national treasure
Ghost Milkreads like a meld of poet Allen Ginsberg, comic books writer Alan Moore and an anarchists' message board . . . There is no doubt that Sinclair is original, observant, a wonderful phrase maker
A striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted form even the most hopeless of London locations
A scorching 400-page diatribe against this and other "grand projects" . . . [Sinclair is] a crazily knowledgeable local historian with a shaman's grasp of strange energies, unseen ley lines, urban esoterica