London : City of Disappearances (Iain Sinclair), Wellington in Wellington, Wellington for sale

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 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. large and heavy - extra postage will apply 672 pages
Author
Iain Sinclair
Title
London : City of Disappearances
Publisher name
Hamish Hamilton 2006 Hardcover
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
2006
Vendor name
Book Haven
Vendor rating
Key words
History, Non-fiction, Travel
Topic
Social Science, Customs&traditions
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