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London Overground Iain Sinclair

London Overground By Iain Sinclair

London Overground by Iain Sinclair


$17.99
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Summary

Echoing his journey in London Orbital over a decade ago, this book narrates his second circular walk around the capital. It guides you on a tour of London's trendiest new transport network - and shows the shifting, changing city from new and surprising angles.

London Overground Summary

London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground route. Echoing his journey in London Orbital over a decade ago, Iain Sinclair narrates his second circular walk around the capital. Shortly after rush-hour and accompanied by a rambling companion, Sinclair begins walking along London's Overground network, or, 'Ginger Line'. With characteristic playfulness, detours into folk history, withering assessments of the political classes and a joyful allegiance to the ordinary oddball, Sinclair guides us on a tour of London's trendiest new transport network - and shows the shifting, changing city from new and surprising angles. 'He is incapable of writing a dull paragraph' Scotland on Sunday 'Sinclair breathes wondrous life into monstrous man-made landscapes' Times Literary Supplement 'If you are drawn to English that doesn't just sing, but sings the blues and does scat and rocks the joint, try Sinclair. His sentences deliver a rush like no one else's' Washington Post Iain Sinclair's books include London Orbital, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, Downriver (which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award) Ghost Milk and American Smoke. He lives in Hackney, East London.

London Overground Reviews

Publisher's description. From London's master psychogeographer, author of Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire, comes a new adventure into the city's ancient and modern secrets. A living history of the edgelands and forgotten spaces surrounding London Overground: a portrait of the shifting, changing metropolis as seen from the 'Ginger Line'. * Penguin *
He is incapable of writing a dull paragraph * Scotland on Sunday *
Sinclair breathes wondrous life into monstrous, man-made landscapes * Times Literary Supplement *
If you are drawn to English that doesn't just sing, but sings the blues and does scat and rocks the joint, try Sinclair. His sentences deliver a rush like no one else's * Washington Post *

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 the Encore Award. He lives in Hackney, east London.

Additional information

GOR006682233
9780241146958
024114695X
London Overground: A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20150604
272
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Customer Reviews - London Overground