Main entry:

Sinclair, Iain, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

The last London : true fictions from an unreal city / Iain Sinclair.

Publication:

London : Oneworld Publications, 2018.
[Place of publication not identified] : Oneworld publications, 2018.
©2017

Description:

324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318) and index.
Machine generated contents note: LOSING -- Dancers on the Beach -- HMS Haggerston Park -- By Weight of Water -- After Sebald -- FINDING -- Digging for Victory -- Overground Soundscrape -- Pigeon Fishing -- Free Breakfast for Bikes -- Two Swimming Pools or, Shardenfreude -- Voice of the Huts -- WALKING -- The Milky Way (to Croydon) -- Downriver -- Absolutely Barking -- Night Hospital -- Gummed Eyes -- Brexit Means Brexit.

Summary:

Iain Sinclair has been documenting the peculiar magic of the river-city that absorbs and obsesses him for most of his adult life. In The Last London, he strikes out on a series of solitary walks and collaborative expeditions to make a final reckoning with a capital stretched beyond recognition. Here is a mesmerising record of secret scholars and whispering ghosts. Of disturbing encounters. Night hospitals. Pits that become cameras. Mole Man labyrinths. And privileged swimming pools, up in clouds, patrolled by surveillance helicopters. Where now are the myths, the ultimate fictions of a many times revised city? Travelling from the pinnacle of the Shard to the outer limits of the London Overground system at Croydon and Barking, from the Thames Estuary to the future ruins of Olympicopolis, Sinclair reflects on where London begins and where it ends. A memoir, a critique, a love letter, The Last London is a delirious conclusion to a truly epic project.

ISBN:

9781786073303 (paperback)
1786073307 (paperback)

Subject:

Intellectual life.
Travel.
London (England) Description and travel.
London (England) Intellectual life.
Londres (Angleterre) Descriptions et voyages.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle.
England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305383
Call No.: BIB 251207
Status: Available