Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project - Couverture rigide

Sinclair, Iain

 
9780241144350: Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0241144353 ISBN 13 : 9780241144350
Editeur : Hamish Hamilton, 2011

Synopsis

Beginning in his east London home many years before it will be invaded by the Olympian machinery of global capitalism, Sinclair strikes out near and far in search of the forgotten and erased. He travels from the mouth of the Thames to Oxford, crosses Morecambe Bay in the footsteps of drowned Chinese cockle pickers, and visits an Athenian, post-Olympics landscape of vast and deserted stadia.

It is a story of incident and accident, of the curious meeting the bizarre. Sinclair writes of being a labourer in Stratford, of Orwellian steps to ban a book launch in a library, of the fundamentalist visions of J.G. Ballard. Stories of police raids and mass expulsions jostle with accounts of failed grand projects: the Millennium Dome, Thames Gateway, and numerous other half-completed, ill-advised or abandoned structures.

Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk 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.

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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.

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Éditeur
Hamish Hamilton
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241144353
ISBN 13 
9780241144350
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780141039640: Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0141039647 ISBN 13 :  9780141039640
Editeur : Penguin, 2012
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