The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease - Couverture souple

Byatt, A. S.; Campbell, Ramsey; Duhig, Ian; Kureishi, Hanif; Marek, Adam; Maitland, Sara; Rogers, Jane; Woodward, Gerard; Cottrell Boyce, Frank; Holness, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905583184 ISBN 13 : 9781905583188

Editeur : Comma Press, 2018

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prizewinning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A S Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999. Matthew Holness won the Perrier Comedy Award in 2001 for Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, and has since appeared in The Office, Casanova, and his own Channel 4 television series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Man to Man With Dean Learner. Hanif Kureishi s first play, Soaking the Heat, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1976. Since then he has enjoyed success as a playwright, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer. His play My Beautiful Launderette was adapted into an award-winning film starring Daniel Day Lewis. His first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1990 and was adapted for BBC TV. His novel Intimacy and short story 'My Son the Fanatic' were also adapted into award-winning feature films. Frank Cottrell Boyce s film credits include 24 Hour Party People, A Cock and Bull Story and the forthcoming remake of Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang. His debut novel Millions won the 2004 Carnegie Medal and was shortlisted for The Guardian Children s Fiction Award. His second novel, Framed, was adapted into a film by the BBC. His third, The Unforgotten Coat, was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Children s Book Award and won the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He was Danny Boyle s script writer on the 2012 London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

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WINNER OF THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD 2008

FEATURES 'POSSUM' by MATTHEW HOLNESS- NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

First published in 2008, reissued for 2018

In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that delved deep into the tradition of horror writing and claimed to understand one of its darkest tricks. Like a mad scientist, he performed literary vivisection on a still-breathing body of work, exploring its inner anatomy, and pulling out mysterious organs for classification. His aim: to present to the world a complete theory of das unheimliche , the uncanny.

In the spirit of this great experiment, 14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Comma Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1905583184
• ISBN 13: 9781905583188
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224