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Hackney, that rose-red empire : a confidential report

Sinclair, Iain, 1943-2009
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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.
Main title:
Hackney, that rose-red empire : a confidential report / Iain Sinclair ; with original prints and drawings by Oona Grimes.
Publisher:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2009.
Collation:
viii, 581 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Jacket unfolds into map.
ISBN:
9780241142165 (hbk)0241142164 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1349752
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