{"product_id":"2940151056779","title":"White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings","description":"'In this extraordinary work Sinclair combines a sort of spiritual inquest or seance into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with another plot-thread, done in hectic picaresque, of a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria - Dickensian London gripped by cholera, the shambles of a Victorian surgeon's operating theatre, vultures flapping around the Farringdon Road bookstalls as the ropes come off - interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo wrote a critic for London's Guardian newspaper, which chose Iain Sinclair's brilliantly original debut novel, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (1987), as runner-up for the prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize. This first-ever American edition features a new introduction by Alan Moore, whose graphic novel From Hell was partly inspired by Sinclair's novel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Iain Sinclair, in White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, has provided much more than a brilliant debut ... a manifesto for a future literature that has more blood, more brains, and more mysterious beauty ... Those who aspire to understand what's happening in modern writing should start here.' - Alan Moore, from the Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A work of integrity because it constantly takes serious risks ... I only wish there was more writing like this.' - Kathy Acker \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A stimulating and idiosyncratic visionary novel, full of lively characters and bizarre humour.' - Michael Moorcock \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English.' - John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073700872432,"sku":"2940151056779","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151056779_p0.jpg?v=1763758219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151056779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}