Retro-Retro
Amy Prior(Author)
Serpent's Tail (Publisher)
Published on 20. June 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-85242-644-6 (ISBN)
Description
Retro Retro brings together some of the best new literary talent from Britain and the US, to pick and mix from the retro treasure chest. Marilyn Monroe goes browsing in a used bookstore in '50s New York. A Chinese fan of Hollywood musicals gets a Grace Kelly make over. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ride again on a cold winter's night in the '70s. An exotic romance flourishes in a thrift store in '80s bohemian Baltimore. Looking at the present through a rear-view mirror, Retro Retro offers readers a ticket to a new kind of time travel, through haunted houses and museums of strange hair, featuring ethnic slumming and dodgy '70s rock bands. Who says you can never go back?
Reviews / Votes
?Fantastic? The Times ?This book is road fiction in motion, and boy, can it move!? Level ?The writing is first class? BBMMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-644-6 (9781852426446)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Amy Prior is a London-based writer. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals and book collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Amy skirted the fringes of fanzine culture around the music scene, eventually editing and contributing writing to critically acclaimed short fiction anthologies for Serpent's Tail (UK/US) and Avalon (U.S.). In 2005, she toured the U.S. for her collection 'Lost On Purpose', an international collection of city stories. She was recently commissioned by Tate Modern for 'New Art, New Fiction', a project about fiction response to visual artworks - and her new fiction book 'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' (2007) is available from gallery bookstores in London and the U.S. Amy is the recipient of an individual writers award for her short fiction from the Arts Council of England (2005).