Ebook: Ghost milk: calling time on the grand project
Author: Sinclair Iain
- Tags: Sports facilities--England--London, Public works--England--London, Public works, Sports facilities, Travel, Sinclair Iain -- 1943- -- Travel, Sinclair Iain -- 1943-, Public works -- England -- London, Sports facilities -- England -- London, London (England) -- Description and travel, England -- London
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London (England);England;London
- Language: English
- epub
In Ghost Milk Iain Sinclair exposes the dark underbelly of the Olympics 2012
Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death and soon to be scorched by riots. This is a road map to a possible future as well as Iain Sinclair's most powerful statement yet on the throwaway impermanence of the present.
'Wonderful, sharp, amusing, grippingly atmospheric. One of our most dazzling prose stylists' Daily Telegraph
'A scorching diatribe' Independent
'Sinclair views London through a distortingly surreal lens; a striking visual poetry and tart black comedy are extracted from even the most hopeless of London locations. For those unfamiliar with Sinclair's work, Ghost Milk is a good place to start' Spectator
'Inventive, dazzling, arresting. Sinclair...