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Iain Sinclair
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Dining on Stones |
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English |
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Paperback |
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464 |
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2005-04-28 |
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0141014822 |
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Penguin Books Ltd |
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0.79 pounds |
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5.2 x 0.0 x 7.76 inches |
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Product Description
Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair's sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs. Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man's fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader. "Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form". (Daily Telegraph). "Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness". (Sunday Times). "Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that is at once hallucinatory and forensic". (Independent on Sunday). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); Landor's Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky's Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire, and Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.
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