Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report - Couverture rigide

Sinclair, Iain

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0241142164 ISBN 13 : 9780241142165

Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2009

Synopsis

Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as 'progress'.

In this 'documentary fiction', Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamish Hamilton
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241142164
• ISBN 13: 9780241142165
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible