The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet

“How best to describe Iain Sinclair?” asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. “A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL-E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city’s textual waste? A psycho-geographer (from which term Sinclair has been rowing away ever since he helped launch it into the mainstream)? He’s all of these, and more.”

Now, for the first time, the enigma that is Iain Sinclair lands on American shores for his long-awaited engagement with the memory-filled landscapes of the American Beats and their fellow travelers.

A book filled with bad journeys and fated decisions, American Smoke is an epic walk in the footsteps of Malcolm Lowry, Charles Olson, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and others, heated by obsession (the Old West, volcanoes, Mexico) and enlivened by false memories, broken reports, and strange adventures.

With American Smoke, Sinclair confirms his place as the most innovative of our chroniclers of the contemporary.

有远见的作家Iain Sinclair在他最史诗般的旅程中把目光转向了美国的垮掉的一代。

"罗伯特-麦克法兰（Robert Macfarlane）在《卫报》上问道："如何最好地描述伊恩-辛克莱？"一个文学界的泥腿子和捡破烂的人？旅行社的流浪汉（他的说法）？一个对废话有天赋的中产阶级辍学者（也是他说的）？二十一世纪景观的毒理学家？一个反文化和隐秘历史的历史学家？一个脾气暴躁的瓦力，强迫性地收集和压缩城市的文字垃圾？一个心理地理学家（自从辛克莱尔帮助它进入主流以来，他一直在努力摆脱这个术语）？他是所有这些，甚至更多"。

现在，伊恩-辛克莱尔这个谜首次登陆美国海岸，与他期待已久的美国 "垮掉的一代 "和他们的同路人的充满记忆的风景进行接触。

这本书充满了糟糕的旅程和命中注定的决定，《美国之烟》是沿着马尔科姆-洛瑞、查尔斯-奥尔森、杰克-凯鲁亚克、威廉-巴勒斯、加里-斯奈德等人的脚步进行的史诗般的行走，因迷恋（旧西部、火山、墨西哥）而升温，因虚假的记忆、破碎的报告和奇怪的冒险而生动。

通过《美国之烟》，辛克莱证实了他作为我们当代最富创新精神的记录者的地位。