- Paperback: 226 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (19 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099275023
- ISBN-13: 978-0099275022
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 982,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| ||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Amazon.co.uk Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Following his Bless the Thief and Silent Conversations, Alan Wall's intriguingly titled Richard Dadd in Bedlam & Other Stories is an assortment of 15 tales which give a twist to a number of thoroughly modern themes. Combining serial murder with ancient sacrifice, "A to Z" --the novella which opens the collection--sets the tone of these stories: a strong narrative persona, a playful sense of the Zeitgeist ("Frank, can you key in Millennium Bulletin and find out if there's anyone of ours can tell me about it?") and a keen awareness of genre. Many of the fictions included here are self- consciously erudite ("That Frenchman they all drone on about-- what's his name?-- Derrida," muses the eponymous poet in "An Old Man in Florence"), using the short story as a device to play with a range of contemporary ideas in philosophy, aesthetics, science fiction and popular culture. So much so that conceit ("I read Freud on 'The Uncanny', and found his obsession with demonology and possession something insufficiently remarked upon," comments Thomas Treeley, memorable narrator of "Cult") sometimes threatens to overwhelm, rather than support, this collection, and its unusual challenge to the limits of the language world of the short story. --Vicky Lebeau
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
Product Description
A selection of stories, this has "A to Z" (a novella) at its heart, in which a detective has to return unexpectedly to London. Once there, he has to learn to read the city anew in the light of arcane allusions planted by an apparently murderous sect.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An involving mixture,
By A Customer
This review is from: Richard Dadd in Bedlam and Other Stories (Paperback)
In A to Z, the longest story in this collection, the body of a young woman, dressed only in a strange white gown, is found strangely tattooed and pumped full of a fatal amount of heroin. The police drag their expert in matters mystical from his wired Yorkshire retreat, where research was keeping him contented, to uncover strange beliefs and practices, and the identity of the charismatic cause of it all. Unexpected turns, in a strongly-realised London, kept me strongly interested. And the rest of the stories are a varied and attention-deserving bunch. They deal with all sorts of people, from a self-centred singer who thinks he's a new Dylan, but isn't, to the painters Rembrandt and Richard Dadd, who killed his Dad.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
