Manchester Slingback

Manchester Slingback
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Publisher : Canelo
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781910859469
ISBN-13 : 191085946X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Manchester Slingback by : Nicholas Blincoe

A successful man confronts his hustler youth when an old friend is murdered in this crime novel exploring the gritty gay Village of ’80s Manchester. At thirty-four years old, Jake Powell is a consummate professional in charge of an upscale casino in the West End of London. But fifteen years ago, Jake was hustling on the fringes of Manchester’s gay Village: running wild with a crowd of rentboys, purse-snatchers and disco trash; sleeping with anyone and everything. In those days, Jake did a lot of things he’s not proud of. And what little he does remember he’d prefer to forget. But when Detective Inspector Davey Green takes a sudden and unexpected interest in his past, Jake is forced to confront the dirty secrets that led to the murder of his best friend . . .

Dancefloor-Driven Literature

Dancefloor-Driven Literature
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9781501357688
ISBN-13 : 1501357689
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Dancefloor-Driven Literature by : Simon A. Morrison

Almost as soon as 'club culture' took hold - during the UK's Second Summer of Love in 1988 - its sociopolitical impact became clear, with journalists, filmmakers and authors all keen to use this cultural context as source material for their texts. This book uses that electronic music subculture as a route into an analysis of these principally literary representations of a music culture: why such secondary artefacts appear and what function they serve. The book conceives of a new literary genre to accommodate these stories born of the dancefloor - 'dancefloor-driven literature'. Using interviews with Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting (1994), alongside other dancefloor-driven authors Nicholas Blincoe and Jeff Noon as case studies, the book analyzes three separate ways writers draw on electronic dance music in their fictions, interrogating that very particular intermedial intersection between the sonic and the linguistic. It explores how such authors write about something so subterranean as the nightclub scene, and analyses what specific literary techniques they deploy to write lucidly and fluidly about the metronomic beat of electronic music and the chemical accelerant that further alters that relationship.

Postcolonial Manchester

Postcolonial Manchester
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9781526101877
ISBN-13 : 1526101874
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Postcolonial Manchester by : Lynne Pearce

Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy – and the inequalities upon which it turns – is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city’s long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester’s rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.

Reading on Location

Reading on Location
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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781607652458
ISBN-13 : 1607652455
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading on Location by : Luisa Moncada

From the charming city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the Amazon of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde, this unique travel guide brings you to the places you've only read about. Whether you want to learn more about a destination or follow in the footsteps of a favorite character, Reading on Location helps you make the most of your trip.

Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture

Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture
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Publisher : Critical Vision
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 1900486350
ISBN-13 : 9781900486354
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture by : Temple Drake

An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop culture, alternative, underground or subversive. Updated and revised from the pages of the critically acclaimed Headpress journal, this is an enlightened and entertaining guide to the counter culture - including everything from cult film, music, comics and cutting-edge fiction, by way of its books and zines, with contact information accompanying each review.

How Not to Write a Novel

How Not to Write a Novel
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Publisher : Allison & Busby
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9780749011352
ISBN-13 : 0749011351
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis How Not to Write a Novel by : David Armstrong

Every week, agents and publishers in this country receive hundreds of manuscripts from would-be authors. Of these, fewer than one per cent will make it into print. David Armstrong was one of the one per-centers, his first crime novel plucked from the slush pile at a major publisher and published to acclaim. So far, so good. But it rapidly became clear to Armstrong that being a published novelist is not always as glamorous as it seems from the outside. There are the depressing, ill-attended readings, the bitchy writers' conventions, the bookshops who have never heard of you and don't stock your book. All of these will be familiar to any writer who, like Armstrong, falls into to the category euphemistically known in publishing as 'midlist'. The reality is that for every JK Rowling, there are 1,000 David Armstrongs; for every writer who is put up in a five-star hotel and flies first class courtesy of their publisher, there are 1,000 who sleep on friend's floors during book tours and dine at motorway service stations...Witty, acerbic and wise, How Not to Write a Novel lifts the lid on publishing. From agents to editors, publicists to sales reps, it explains the publishing process - and how to survive it - from the point of view of a non-bestselling writer. A unique book, it is essential reading for anyone who dreams of getting their novel published - and for anyone curious about the inside workings of the publishing game.

Repetitive Beat Generation

Repetitive Beat Generation
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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105029509531
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Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Repetitive Beat Generation by : Steve Redhead

A collection of interviews with some of the most popular and influential writers to emerge in the 1990's, revealing the deep influence that music has had on many of these writers.

The Essential Mystery Lists

The Essential Mystery Lists
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Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press Inc
Total Pages : 591
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ISBN-10 : 9781615952038
ISBN-13 : 1615952039
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Essential Mystery Lists by : Roger M Sobin

For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.

We'll Never Have Paris

We'll Never Have Paris
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Publisher : Repeater
Total Pages : 537
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ISBN-10 : 9781912248391
ISBN-13 : 1912248395
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis We'll Never Have Paris by : Andrew Gallix

Fiction and essays inspired by Paris from more than 70 Anglophone writers -- A MoveableFeast for the twenty-first century. "When good Americans die, they go to Paris", wrote the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in 1894. The French capital has always radiated an unmatched cultural, political and intellectual brilliance in the anglophone imagination, maintaining its status as the modern cosmopolitan city par excellence through the twentieth century to today. We'll Never Have Paris explores this enduring fascination with this myth of a bohemian and literary Paris (that of the Lost Generation, Joyce, Beckett and Shakespeare and Company) which also happens to be a largely anglophone construct -- one which the Eurostar and Brexit only seem to have exacerbated in recent years. Edited by Andrew Gallix, this collection brings together many of the most talented and adventurous writers from the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and New Zealand to explore this theme through short stories, essays and poetry, in order to build up a captivating portrait of Paris as viewed by English speakers today -- A Moveable Feast for the twenty-first century. We'll Never Have Paris includes contributions from seventy-nine authors, including Tom McCarthy, Will Self, Brian Dillon, Joanna Walsh, Eley Williams, Max Porter, Sophie Mackintosh and Lauren Elkin.

The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000

The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : 9781351894012
ISBN-13 : 1351894013
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000 by : Keith D. M. Snell

Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.