The Last London : True Fictions from an Unreal City (Hardcover)

from lriley

I've read Sinclair once before--his novel Downriver which I struggled fairly hard to get through. I liked The Last London a lot better. I kind of look at it as somewhat like a travel book---one that takes you around London and its satellite towns but not by way of the usual tourist traps. It's a ...

from LizzieD

Iain Sinclair must be an acquired taste. I don't think I want it often on my mental palette, but I will likely look for another of his London books someday. His premise in The Last London is that what has made London distinctive is disappearing rapidly. This is a book in which Sinclair walks his ...

from vpfluke

This book about Sinclair's wanderings around he City of London has almost fictional feel to it. An almost novelistic encounter with peoples and places: the Vegetative Buddha. I found his story of the Society of St. Mrgaret interesting as a fellow Anglican being sympathetic to Anglo-Catholic cause...

from blakefraina

I'll be visiting London this fall for the first time since my honeymoon 23 years ago. In anticipation of all the changes that await me, I decided to check out Iain Sinclair's The Last London. Although he's a well-known novelist in the UK, I'm only familiar with him through his appearances in film...

from elenchus

Blurbs indicate The Last London is Sinclair's coda to a lifetime's commentary on London's devolution. It's unclear to me now whether I inferred that myself before cracking the book, or applied it unconsciously after reading that and perhaps other promotional material. The title contains an implie...