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Author: Sinclair, Iain
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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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Title American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
Author Iain Sinclair
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 320
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY
Publication date 2015-05-05
ISBN 9780865478275 / 0865478279
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Description/Travel
- Cultural Region: British
Category Biography / Autobiography
Dewey Decimal Code B

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New York Times Book Review, 07/05/2015, Page 28

About the author

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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