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American Smoke
Iain Sinclair
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Description for American Smoke
Hardcover. Looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. This book is filled with bad journeys and fated decisions. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white), map (colour). BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. 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 a a delirious expedition 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 ... Read more
Iain Sinclair looks to the open road and the Beat Generation in American Smoke. 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 a a delirious expedition 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241145272
SKU
9780241145272
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Iain Sinclair
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 ... Read more
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