{"product_id":"downriver","title":"Downriver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDownriver \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Thames runs through \u003ci\u003eDownriver \u003c\/i\u003elike an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus. They examine the wound, hoping to expose the cause of the city''s affliction . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Remarkable: part apocalyptic documentary, part moth-eaten ghost story, part detective story. Inventive and stylish, Sinclair is one of the most interesting of contemporary novelists''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of those idiosyncratic literary texts that revivify the language, so darn quotable as to be the reader''s delight and the reviewer''s nightmare''  \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e''Crazy, dangerous, prophetic''  \u003cb\u003eAngela Carter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIain Sinclair is the author of \u003ci\u003eDownriver\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Award); \u003ci\u003eLandor''s Tower\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhite Chappell, Scarlet Tracings\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLights Out for the Territory\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLud Heat\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRodinsky''s Room\u003c\/i\u003e (with Rachel Lichtenstein); \u003ci\u003eRadon Daughters;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLondon Orbital\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDining on Stones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGhost Milk\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eLondon: City of Disappearances\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57322152427902,"sku":"NW9780141014852","price":14.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141014852.jpg?v=1778239747","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/downriver","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}