Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales

Overview:

  • Title: Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales
  • Author: Iain Sinclair
  • Year: 1991
  • ISBN-10: 0586090746
  • Publisher: Paladin
  • Price: £14.99
  • Pages: 407+[1]
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath): A Narrative in Twelve Tales
  • Notes:
    • Cover artist credited on inside back flap of dustjacket.
    • The novel is broken up into twelve individual tales, each one tied to a numbered photograph on the endpapers (photographs are the same on the front and back end-papers. The tales are as follows:
      1. He Walked Amongst the Trial Men.
      2. Riverside Opportunities.
      3. Horse Spittle (The Eros of Maps).
      4. Living in Restaurants.
      5. The Solemn Mystery of the Disappearing Room.
      6. Eisenbahnangst (into the Fourth Square).
      7. Prima Donna (The Cleansing of Angels).
      8. Art of the State (The Silvertown Memorial).
      9. The Isle of Dogs (Vat City plc).
      10. The Guilty River.
      11. The Case of the Premature Mourners.
      12. The Sexing of Stones.
    • Page 408 is "Acknowledgements and Confessions" and is numbered on the table of contents but not numbered in the body of the book.