LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY by Iain Sinclair ( 9780241965504 )

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Title:

LIGHTS OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
PENGUIN STREET ART

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Paperback

List price:	£10.00
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ISBN 10:

0241965500

ISBN 13:

9780241965504

Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

6 June, 2013

Series:

Penguin Street Art

Pages:

416

Description:

Walking the streets of London, this title traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, it creates a fluid snapshot of the city.

Synopsis:

Iain Sinclair's Lights Out For The Territory - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. 'The notion was to cut a crude V into the sprawl of the city, to vandalise dormant energies by an act of ambulant signmaking.' Walking the streets of London, Iain Sinclair traces nine routes across the territory of the capital. Connecting people and places, redrawing boundaries both ancient and modern, reading obscure signs and finding hidden patterns, Sinclair creates a fluid snapshot of the city. In Lights Out for the Territory he gives us a daring, provocative, enlightening, disturbing and utterly unique picture of modern urban life. And in the process he reveals the dark underbelly of a London many of us did not know existed. "Quite simply one of the finest books about London ever written". (Spectator). 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, Ghost Milk and Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire.He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances. The Penguin Street Art series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd; Armadillo by William Boyd; And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave; What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe; Americana by Don DeLillo; Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris; The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; The Believers by Zoe Heller; How to Be Good by Nick Hornby; and Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair.

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Penguin Books Ltd

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