{"product_id":"american-smoke-journeys-to-the-end-of-the-light-paperback","title":"American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIain Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat generation in America in his most epic journey yet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?\" asks Robert Macfarlane in \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Smoke \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eAmerican Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIain Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDownriver\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); \u003ci\u003eLandor's Tower\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhite Chappell, Scarlet Tracings\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLights Out for the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLud Heat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRodinsky's Room\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rachel Lichtenstein); \u003ci\u003eRadon Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLondon Orbital\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDining on Stones\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHackney, That Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Ghost Milk\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eLondon: City of Disappearances\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758967488800,"sku":"9780865478275","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/94bde1e4c16ebcbbe1effd07f5fa4da2.webp?v=1780140173","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/american-smoke-journeys-to-the-end-of-the-light-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}