
Dream Space
Julie Armstrong(Author)
Matador (Publisher)
Published on 9. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78088-057-0 (ISBN)
Description
Gabriel is mourning the loss of his home, a cemetery in Paris, which is being demolished to make way for a shopping mall. Turning to technology for an answer to the crisis, he designs a game on his wallet PC called Dream Space. The characters in this game are Collete, Edgar Degas, Vaslav Nijinsky, Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde and himself, Gabriel Kamon. The characters' spirits are awoken when their graves are opened and their coffins removed. Their task is to find a new resting place - Gabriel's is to discover his identity. Is he man or woman, black or white, dead or alive - and where does he come from? Meanwhile, in Amsterdam, Eve is having visions and flashbacks. Is she having a meltdown? Could it be something to do with meeting Jim Morrison? Most importantly of all, does she have a parallel life, and what happens when Gabriel and Eve's strange worlds collide? A chilling tale for the thrill seeker, Dream Space is dark and mysterious, a poetic meditation on the nature of reality and what it means to tell lies...It will appeal to fans of modern contemporary fiction with an innovative blend of historic references and Gothic and magical realism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78088-057-0 (9781780880570)
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Person
Julie loves poetry, dance, art, music, the theatre and France, where, in a stone cottage, she has time and space to dream. A senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, Julie's novella Mirror Cities was published in 2010.