Book description
Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost
chronicler, Iain Sinclair.
WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE
The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound,
draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants.
Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and
rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers,
high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the
rivers detritus. They examine the wound, hoping to expose the cause of
the city's affliction . . .
'Remarkable: part apocalyptic documentary, part moth-eaten ghost
story, part detective story. Inventive and stylish, Sinclair is one of
the most interesting of contemporary novelists' Sunday Times
'One of those idiosyncratic literary texts that revivify the
language, so darn quotable as to be the reader's delight and the
reviewer's nightmare' Guardian
'Crazy, dangerous, prophetic' Angela Carter
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.
Iain Sinclair's books include LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY, LONDON
ORBITAL and WHITE CHAPPELL, SCARLET TRACINGS. He lives in Hackney, East
London.
