{"product_id":"2026200015186-secondhand-downriver","title":"Downriver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory journey through the fractured psyche of Thatcherite London, where a cast of grotesque and vivid characters navigate a city rotting beneath its own myth. Structured as twelve loosely connected tales — collectively subtitled Or, The Vessels of Wrath — the novel chronicles a series of nightmarish odysseys through East London's docklands and beyond, conjuring a landscape saturated with violence, memory, and decay. Sinclair's prose is dense, allusive, and unrelenting, drawing on the traditions of Blake, De Quincey, and the English Gothic to construct a vision of the capital as a site of suppressed horror and political corruption.\n\nWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1991, Downriver cemented Sinclair's reputation as the pre-eminent psychogeographer of London — a writer who reads the city's streets, rivers, and ruins as a living text. As Peter Ackroyd himself attests on the cover, Sinclair is the most inventive novelist of his generation, and this book stands as the most ferocious evidence of that claim. For readers who dare to follow the current downstream, what awaits is not merely a novel, but an exorcism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203187744987,"sku":"2026200015186-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/27dda659-8a4b-4551-8b0b-b5229197091f.png?v=1788145272","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015186-secondhand-downriver","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}