White Noise Ballrooms
$38.39
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2018
Summary
“The devil is at our heels … . at the heart of the city’s aberrations.” Picture a lost city in northern England during the momentous winter of 1978—the final winter before the onset of the Thatcher era, at the peak of the punk rock movement. A notorious serial killer—the Yorkshire Ripper—terrorizes the city’s women, unhindered by an aimless police force. Violent outbursts of gang warfare transect the city’s streets while an immense insane asylum overlooks the chaos from the outskirts. This in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783035800302 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 3035800308 |
| Author: | Stephen Barber |
| Publisher: | Diaphanes AG |
| Imprint: | Diaphanes AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Diaphanes Forward Fiction |
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Critics Review
“Stephen Barber is one of our very best writers, and White Noise Ballrooms is his very best book, to date. An addictive evocation of times and places, then a poetic excavation of those times and places; times and places which are at the heart of Stephen Barber’s work, and at the heart of so many of our lives; quite simply, a brilliant book.”–David Peace, author of Red Riding Quartet
About The Author
Stephen Barber
Stephen Barber is professor of art history at Kingston University in London and a research fellow of the Free University Berlin. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Berlin Bodies: Anatomising the Streets of the City.
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