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Children of Paradise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grudova, Camilla.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture theaters--Employees--Fiction.
- Motion picture theaters.
- Motion picture theaters--Employees.
- Genre:
- Literary fiction
- Horror tales.
- Horror fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Atlantic Books, 2022.
- Summary:
- When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats - she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight-knit colleagues who seem as much a part of the building as its fraying carpets and endless dirt. Dreadful, lonely weeks pass while she longs for their approval, a silent voyeur. So when she finally gains the trust of this cryptic band of oddballs, Holly transforms from silent drudge to rebellious insider and gradually she too becomes part of the Paradise - unearthing its secrets, learning its history and haunting its corridors after hours with the other ushers. It is no surprise when violence strikes, tempers change and the group, eyes still affixed to the screen, starts to rapidly go awry...
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Midnight Cowboy
- The Seven Samurai
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- The Spirit of the Beehive
- Taxi Driver
- Teorema
- The Ghoul
- La Bête Humaine
- A Matter of Life and Death
- Nights of Cabiria
- Return to Oz
- Fanny and Alexander
- Ms. 45
- Popcorn
- Babes in Toyland
- Don't Look Now
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Heathers
- Rosemary's Baby
- The Last Picture Show
- The Red Shoes
- Death in Venice
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781838956332
- 1838956336
- OCLC:
- 1321792847
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