Hackney, that rose-red empire
Iain Sinclair
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Hackney, that rose-red empire
Published
2009
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Pages
581
ISBN-13
9780241142165
ISBN-10
0241142164
Description
Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as 'progress'.In this 'documentary fiction', Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.
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This edition of Hackney, that rose-red empire has approximately 581 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, Hackney, that rose-red empire typically takes between 12h 6m and 8h 4m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 145,250 words and common reading speeds.
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The estimated word count for Hackney, that rose-red empire is approximately 145,250 words. This figure is calculated using industry-standard methods that consider genre-specific word density patterns, typical formatting and layout characteristics, and standard words-per-page ratios for published books.
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Who is the author of Hackney, that rose-red empire?
Hackney, that rose-red empire was written by Iain Sinclair.
When was Hackney, that rose-red empire published?
The publication date for this specific edition is 2009. The original work may have been published on a different date.