White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings - by Iain Sinclair (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>'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.' <p/> So wrote a critic for London's <i>Guardian</i> newspaper, which chose Iain Sinclair's brilliantly original debut novel, <i>White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings</i> (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 <i>From Hell</i> was partly inspired by Sinclair's novel. <p/> 'Iain Sinclair, in <i>White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings</i>, 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 <p/> 'A work of integrity because it constantly takes serious risks ... I only wish there was more writing like this.' - Kathy Acker <p/> 'A stimulating and idiosyncratic visionary novel, full of lively characters and bizarre humour.' - Michael Moorcock <p/> 'Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English.' - John Lanchester, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>
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