In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the B
eats. On the trail of the American Beats, Iain Sinclair makes a delirious and pe
rhaps ill-fated expedition in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Jack Kerouac, Will
iam Burroughs, Charles Olson and Gary Snyder. It is a journey in search of liter
ary ghosts behind mirages of volcanoes and the Old West.
In which rumours vie wi
th false memories and unreliable reports to steer our guide from one strange adv
enture into another. It is an odyssey in which the beginning offers no clues as
to where it may end.
