| Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short Stories Contributor(s): Newland, Courttia (Author) |
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ISBN: 184523040X ISBN-13: 9781845230401 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: Drawing inspiration from everything from traditional horror movies to the sophistication of contemporary Japanese short-story styles, the literary and the popular merge seamlessly in this uniquely black British mix. This collection meticulously and insightfully observes West London's black communities--from patterns of speech, fashions, and pleasures to the pressures of racism and exclusion they seek to escape. Delighting in the dark, the grotesque, and the uncanny, these entertaining, genre-smashing stories provocatively reject the implicitly territorial limits placed on black British writing, and are followed by an afterword in which the author writes of his frustration with the narrow limits imposed on black British fiction by mainstream publishing expectations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.36" W x 8.12" (0.45 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A man with a guilty taste for schoolgirls looks for a way to end his shame; a hotel receptionist begins a sexual adventure with shattering consequences; a young man is troubled by a persistant itch behind his shoulder blades. In these and other stories in this collection, there is a delight in the dark, the grotesque and the uncanny. |