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Radon daughters : a voyage, between art and terror, from the Mound of Whitechapel to the limestone pavements of the Burren / Iain Sinclair.
Van Pelt Library PR6069.I525 R253 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Iain, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 458 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Granta, 1998.
- Summary:
- Radon Daughters is a comic and alarming epic about a city and a society torn by random violence and uncontrollable compulsions. Todd Sileen, a rage-driven cripple, ekes out a living in a wasted East London borough. He spends his days foraging in the pubs and abandoned lots of this ghetto, contending with some of its most menacing inhabitants. Seduced by increasing violence and vices, Sileen endeavors to sustain a life he deems not worth living.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 1994.
- ISBN:
- 1862072086
- OCLC:
- 44835883
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