Category - Fiction / Action & Adventure
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 3 months ago
Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - May 1993
Seller Description
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
Additional Information
Downriver: or the Vessels of Wrath: A Narrative in Twelve Tales
ISBN: 9780679420620
Publisher Description
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 w...
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