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White, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340738936 ISBN 13: 9780340738931

Publisher: Sceptre, 1999

Synopsis

Bursting out of the literary underground, all the writers in this ground-breaking anthology put the emphasis firmly back on gratuitous story-telling and brutal, break-neck plots. Scorching hardcore prose of Stewart Home's Sex Kick collides with the bitterly romantic confessions of Billy Childish. Nicholas Blincoe's cool and stylish thriller writing meets the street realism of Victor Headley's Retropolitan Police, while well-dressed London gangsters fight for page space with the old school skinheads of Richard Allen. Other confirmed authors include Donald Gorgan, Steve Aylett, along with untapped talent from the literary underground.

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Review:

Fast-twitch prose that fizzes and spits, narrative with a kick, jump-cuts that hurt like a knuckle in the eye... (Iain Sinclair)

'There's no shortage of evidence of intergenerational connections in the book's twenty-three stories
The book's real strength.. is in it's discovery of new names- writers at the start of their careers.
China Mieville's Different Skies, an old fashioned horror story.. Satifyingly chilling. Roy A. Bayfield scores a similar result in Signal, though the terror here is psychological rather than supernatural, a scary and disorientating vision of a recurring fugue state, while Jane Graham's Kitchen Sink, the tale of a young girl set adrift in the heart of England, lives up to its title with it's off-kilter picture of domestic life. All hail the new breed'
Teddy Jamieson, The Herald-Glasgow (18/6/99)

"Billed as "new fast and furious stories from the literarary underground" this does exactly what it says on the tin.
Short stories and extracts from novels from the new generation of angry young men (and women), as well as some prose from Brit classics such as Michael Moorcock, who weighs in with a new Jerry Cornelius story,Ted Lewis, the late author of Get Carter and other hardboiled British crime ficton, and Richard Allen, author of the Skinhead youth cult books."
"Read it, get angry, and fight the system!"
WEST LANCASHIRE EVENING GAZZETTE

"a speedy tour of his own demi-monde, among whom can be found the brightest lights of British underground fiction."
MORGAN FALCONER, HIGHBURY AND ISLINGTON EXPRESS, JULY 9 1999

In this ambitious anthology White brings together established purveyors of 60s and 70s pulp fiction and the writers from the current literary underground. The resulting concoction brims with violence, drugs, sex, perversions, rock 'n' roll and gangsters- so no Bridget Jones then, thankfully. It is a mixed bag and like a box of Quality Street, best dipped into rather than consumed in its entirety.

there's old hand Ted Get Carter Lewis with another icily violent slice of Jack Carter

"The female authors also stand out"
KERRY POTTER

"At its best, Nicholas Blincoe's film noir-ish Parisian tale has tremendous fun with the genre"
THE SCOTSMAN-EDINBURGH, JUNE 1999

"Tony White plugs key names and approaches from the '70s- the comic brutalism of Richard 'Skinhead' Allen, the multiversal West London sci-fi of the great Michael Moorcock - into the '90s pulp continuum exemplified by Stella Duffy's inexorably poignant Jailbait and i-D's very own Steve Beard with his supercondensed novella of a sponsored future English Civil War. An urgent, impatient and headstrong anthology."
(UNKNOWN)

A key figure in the literary underground, Tony White has gathered together the first major collection of hard-hitting, aggressive stories that unites the explosive talents of the UK's literary underground with giants of pulp fiction. These are rare, often raw stories, many previously unpublished, from the pens of pulp 'greats' such as Richard (Skinhead) Allen, Michael Moorcock, and Ted (Get Carter) Lewis, alongside all-new action stories from some of the most compelling authors writing in Britain today.

Book Description:

The first major collection of the most exciting writers to emerge in the UK since the chemical generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sceptre
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340738936
• ISBN 13: 9780340738931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360