Retro Retro brings together some of the best new literary talent from Britain and the US, 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. Looking at the present through a rear-view mirror, Retro Retro offers readers a ticket to a new kind of time travel, through haunted houses and museums of strange hair, featuring ethnic slumming and dodgy '70s rock bands. Who says you can never go back?
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?Fantastic? The Times ?This book is road fiction in motion, and boy, can it move!? Level ?The writing is first class? BBM
Acknowledgements vi Introduction vii Future Tense 1(16) Brett Ellen Block Glitter 17(18) Pagan Kennedy His Helpmate 35(14) Cris Mazza A Love of Watches 49(10) Tobias Hill Strand Used Books 1956 59(12) Joyce Carol Oates A Taste of the East 71(10) Bidisha Empty Boxes 81(16) Nicholas Royle The Death of Blonde 97(20) Christopher Kenworthy The Fet-Set Girls 117(16) Tony White Mr Pharmacist 133(12) Susan Corrigan The Stock Exchange 145(30) Matthew de Abaitua Lets Go 175(16) Emily Perkins Miss Shima 191(14) Amy Prior Doko Ni Iki Mas Ka 205(20) Emily Hammond Rosa 225(10) Eleanor Knight At the Estate Auction 235(4) Lucy Corin Notes on Contributors 239
Amy Prior is a London-based writer. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals and book collections on both sides of the Atlantic. Amy skirted the fringes of fanzine culture around the music scene, eventually editing and contributing writing to critically acclaimed short fiction anthologies for Serpent's Tail (UK/US) and Avalon (U.S.). In 2005, she toured the U.S. for her collection 'Lost On Purpose', an international collection of city stories. She was recently commissioned by Tate Modern for 'New Art, New Fiction', a project about fiction response to visual artworks - and her new fiction book 'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' (2007) is available from gallery bookstores in London and the U.S. Amy is the recipient of an individual writers award for her short fiction from the Arts Council of England (2005).
