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Retro retro : fictional flashbacks / edited by Amy Prior.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, English.
- Short stories, American.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 242 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Serpent's Tail, 2000.
- Summary:
- "Retro Retro" brings together some of the best new literary talent from the US and the UK 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. A tortured cinephile tries to conjure the essence of cinema from thin air. Looking at the present through a rear-view mirror, "Retro Retro" offers readers a ticket to a new kind of time travel. Who says you can never go back? US Contributors include: Susan Corrigan Emily Hammond Pagan Kennedy Eleanor Knight Cris Mazza Joyce Carol Oates
- Contents:
- Future tense / Brett Ellen Block
- Glitter / Pagan Kennedy
- His helpmate / Criz Mazza
- A love of watches / Tobias Hill
- Strand Used Books 1956 / Joyce Carol Oates
- A taste of the East / Bidisha
- Empty boxes / Nicholas Royle
- The death of blonde / Christopher Kenworthy
- The jet-set girls / Tony White
- Mr Pharmacist / Susan Corrigan
- The stock exchange / Matthew de Abaitua
- Not her real name. Let's go / Emily Perkins
- Miss Shima / Amy Prior
- Doko ni iki mas ka / Emily Hammond
- Rosa / Eleanor Knight
- At the estate auction / Lucy Corin.
- ISBN:
- 1852426446
- OCLC:
- 43541207
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