Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 646
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ISBN-10 : 9780141012742
ISBN-13 : 0141012749
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Book Synopsis Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire by : Iain Sinclair

Download or read book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire written by Iain Sinclair and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as �progress�. In this �documentary fiction�, Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.


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