by Iain Sinclair · Hamish Hamilton · tapa dura · ISBN 9780241142165
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«Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report» is Iain Sinclair's chronicle, published by Hamish Hamilton in hardback (581 pages, in English).
In this work, Iain Sinclair records his four decades in Hackney, combining memoir, chronicle and documentary fiction: he interweaves writers, photographers and marginal figures, collects legends such as the Mole Man or the tunnels, and mentions Lenin and Stalin or filmmakers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard as the neighbourhood changes before the Olympic Games.
First edition published by Hamish Hamilton on 5 February 2009. Includes original drawings and prints by Oona Grimes.
For readers of London social and urban history, memoirs and travel literature.
