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The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet
“How best to describe Iain Sinclair?” asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. “A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL-E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city’s textual waste? A psycho-geographer (from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into the mainstream)? He’s all of these, and more.”
Now, for the first time, the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American shores for his long-awaited engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travelers.
A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, American Smoke is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and others, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports, and strange adventures.
With American Smoke, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary.
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American smoke : journeys to the end of the light / Iain Sinclair
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New York : Faber & Faber, 2014
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First Edition. Near fine copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by the author. Physical description: 309 pages; illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Description based on print version record. Subjects: Sinclair, Iain 1943- Travel United States; Sinclair, Iain 1943-; Beats (Persons); Intellectuals United States ; Biography; Artists United States ; Biography; United States Description and travel; United States Intellectual life 20th century. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. Seller Inventory # 396822
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American smoke : journeys to the end of the light / Iain Sinclair
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ISBN 13: 9780374711672
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First Edition. Near fine copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by the author. Physical description: 309 pages; illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Description based on print version record. Subjects: Sinclair, Iain 1943- Travel United States; Sinclair, Iain 1943-; Beats (Persons); Intellectuals United States ; Biography; Artists United States ; Biography; United States Description and travel; United States Intellectual life 20th century. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations. Seller Inventory # 396822
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