# American Smoke

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- Book: [American Smoke](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-sinclair/american-smoke) ([American Smoke.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-sinclair/american-smoke.md))
- Authors: [Iain Sinclair](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-sinclair)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-581-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and perhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of literary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes and the Old West. In which rumours vie with false memories and unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adventure into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as to where it may end.