Reviews for Liquid City

The average rating for Liquid City based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-04 00:00:00 Jerel Fanuncio The other day, I was talking to a friend about how I'd lost patience with Iain Sinclair, his "ever-decreasing circles and ever-increasing grump". So of course, that evening I saw the library had a new one of his in, and borrowed it. But it's a new edition of an oldie I've not read, and it turns out half of my complaint was exactly wrong. This is the Sinclair I like: moving in his own eccentric circles where a resemblance to Derek Raymond is the sort of thing on which people will often remark, surrounded by his familiar characters (Driffield, Moore, Marc Atkins himself), lurking in the shadows on the edge of town (except that in London they're right at the heart of the old town). Yes, it was great that he came out into the light to decry the devastation visited on this strange old London as the money flooded in...but the longer he stays out on the public stage, the more that magical Sinclair-ness departs him, the less he looks distinct from all the other old men saying it wasn't like this in their day. Hopefully there remain enough of these shadows for him to sink into again, recharging in the numinous monochrome London caught to perfection in Atkins' photographs.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-31 00:00:00 Per-ivar Ruud A syncretic sweep of the ghostly and mordant. there is a necessity in Sinclair's memory, however flawed and decayed such has become. I type this as Dale Peck is speaking on tv from the PEN Conference. There is a grim irony I adn't anticipated.