| White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings Contributor(s): Sinclair, Iain (Author), Moore, Alan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1941147844 ISBN-13: 9781941147849 Publisher: Valancourt Books OUR PRICE: $17.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5" W x 8" (0.37 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - British Isles - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'In this extraordinary work Sinclair combines a sort of spiritual inquest or seance into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with another plot-thread, done in hectic picaresque, of a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria - Dickensian London gripped by cholera, the shambles of a Victorian surgeon's operating theatre, vultures flapping around the Farringdon Road bookstalls as the ropes come off - interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history.' So wrote a critic for London's Guardian newspaper, which chose Iain Sinclair's brilliantly original debut novel, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987), as runner-up for the prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize. This first-ever American edition features a new introduction by Alan Moore, whose graphic novel From Hell was partly inspired by Sinclair's novel. 'Iain Sinclair, in White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, has provided much more than a brilliant debut ... a manifesto for a future literature that has more blood, more brains, and more mysterious beauty ... Those who aspire to understand what's happening in modern writing should start here.' - Alan Moore, from the Introduction 'A work of integrity because it constantly takes serious risks ... I only wish there was more writing like this.' - Kathy Acker 'A stimulating and idiosyncratic visionary novel, full of lively characters and bizarre humour.' - Michael Moorcock 'Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English.' - John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph |