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Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs

Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man''s fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader.

''Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form'' Daily Telegraph

''Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness'' Sunday Times

''Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 4/28/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780141014821
      978-0141014821
      ISBN-10 0141014822
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Dining on Stones is Iain Sinclair''s sharp, edgy mystery of London and its environs

      Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. Shifting from Hackney to Hastings and all places in-between, while dissecting a man''s fractured psyche piece by piece, Dining on Stones is a puzzle and a quest - for both writer and reader.

      ''Exhilarating, wonderfully funny, greatly unsettling - Sinclair on top form'' Daily Telegraph

      ''Prose of almost incantatory power, cut with Chandleresque pithiness'' Sunday Times

      ''Spectacular: the work of a man with the power to see things as they are, and magnify that vision with a clarity that

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