Hackney, that rose-red empire
Subtitle: a confidential report
By: Iain Sinclair ; with original prints and drawings by Oona Grimes.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780241142165
Subjects: Hackney (London, England) -- Social conditions -- Fiction; Hackney (London, England) -- History -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's personal record of the area of London in which he has lived for forty years. It is a documentary fiction, seeking to capture the spirit pf place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges.