The tradional inhabitants of London's Docklands--the crafty Cockney miscreants of yore--have lately been shoved aside by an onslaught of sleek condos and chic cafes. But luckily, our narrator--along with a band of fellow eccentrics--has been hired to film a documentary about old-time life along the Thames.
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The tradional inhabitants of London's Docklands--the crafty Cockney miscreants of yore--have lately been shoved aside by an onslaught of sleek condos and chic cafes. But luckily, our narrator--along with a band of fellow eccentrics--has been hired to film a documentary about old-time life along the Thames.
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New York. 1993. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679420622. 449 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Anthony McCall Associates. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Thames may still flow through the heart of London, but life along its shores has dramatically changed. The inhabitants of London's Docklands-crafty Cockney miscreants of yore-have lately been shoved aside by an onslaught of sleek condos and chic cafes. In Downriver, Iain Sinclair's first book to be published in the United States, the author traces the ruins of Thatcher's reign, through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of the river life that was. Downriver is a savage, satirical quest to understand how people's lives, a government's policies, and a legendary urban waterland conspire together in a boggling display of self-destruction. As ghosts of past and present appear, the action becomes a palimpsest of the real and surreal, historic and fantastic, luscious and seedy. Fredrik, the writer, ‘fretted by a restless and finger-jabbing energy'; Roland, an actor friend, ‘weathered, fit, tanned; beached, safely, on the far shore of thirty' who lives with his mother in a poshly restored riverside basement; Milditch, a rank book dealer cum fish monger-property dealer-two-bit actor; and Edith, the conceptualist stripper who comes to life from a vintage photograph to become one of the most startling and compelling women in modern fiction-these are a few of the motley bunch that accompanies the narrator on his Carrollesque tour along a demented and seductive riverscape. Swiftian in its scope and humor, Downriver is a darkly comic tour de force. Sinclair leads us through fractured dreams and a nostalgia for better times that is as suspect as it is inevitable. Winner of Britain's prestigious Encore Award for best second novel, Downriver has become celebrated in England for its astonishing energy and inventiveness. inventory #25007.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. The tradional inhabitants of London's Docklands--the crafty Cockney miscreants of yore--have lately been shoved aside by an onslaught of sleek condos and chic cafes. But luckily, our narrator--along with a band of fellow eccentrics--has been hired to film a documentary about old-time life along the Thames. A very clean copy. Mylar wrapped to preserve.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0679420622. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Light rubbing to d/j, some indentations on back d/j.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
