London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
In this volume Iain Sinclair sets out to map the vast stretch of urban settlement outside London bounded by the M25. His long journeys - from the Lea Valley to Uxbridge, from Staines to South Mimms - are flanked by the black clouds of smoke from burning carcasses as the foot and mouth panic takes hold. Here he uncovers a history of forgotten villages, suburban utopias and hellish asylums, now transformed into upmarket housing, all the while walking a disappearing landscape, as the countryside is engulfed by commerce.
Sinclair's writing may be caviar to the general, but his rich and allusive style won him many new friends in the much acclaimed Lights Out For the Territory, a more accessible than usual book for Sinclair in which he anatomised the territory he made his own, the streets and rivers of inner LondonMany Sinclair admirers felt that he would return to his less accessible (but richly rewarding) writing, but he has once again defeated expectations. London Orbital has a new agenda: it maps an area much less fashionable and previously uncharted: that vast chasm of urban settlement outside London surrounded by the great circle of the M25. One can always rely on Sinclair's unique imagination to find bizarre and brilliant material from his journeys.
Iain Sinclair was born in Cardiff and now lives in Hackney, East London. He is the author of Lights Out for the Territory, Landor's Tower, White Chappell Scarlet Tracings, Downriver, Lud Heat and Radon Daughters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862075474 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862075476 |
| Title | London Orbital |
| Author | Iain Sinclair |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2002-09-05 |
| Number of pages | 500 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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