So very English : a Serpent's Tail compilation /

"The thirty-three contributors all have first-hand experience of the vagaries of English life - Earls Court mice, fascist hatred of a young Pakistani, chocolates that replace sex, Marxists in Finsbury Park, a dinner-party stiff, Lady Sydney and her six children, au pairs in 081, racist policeme...

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Otros Autores: Rowe, Marsha (ed.)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: London : Serpent's Tail, 1991.
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245 0 0 |a So very English :  |b a Serpent's Tail compilation /  |c edited by Marsha Rowe. 
260 |a London :  |b Serpent's Tail,  |c 1991. 
300 |a 288 p. ;  |c 20 cm. 
500 |a Cuentos y textos, algunos traducidos al inglés. 
500 |a "A paperback original"--Contratapa. 
505 0 |a Fecking off to England / Colm Toibin -- "I'm so happy for you, I really am" / Kathy Lette -- The Back lots of England / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Spion Kop / Judith Grossman -- Irmgard / Kevin Coyne -- The other Oscar / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The kiss of life / Emma Tennant -- According to Marx / Roy Heath -- Au pair / Fay Weldon -- Spooks / Andrew Graham-Yooll -- Flowers for the birthing / Jean Binta Breeze -- A Brown and Wright / Nicole Ward Jouve -- Inter-city coffee calypso / John Agard -- Common decency / Jill Neville -- "Miss Lala" / Bonnie Greer -- Private enterprise / Gabriel Josipovici -- Bap down in Camden / Duncan McLean -- From missionary school to Mitcham / Gohar Kordi -- Dynasty reruns: Treasure houses of Great Britain / Lynne Tillman -- Wherever I hang / Grace Nichols -- Why Me? / Leena Dhingra -- The ghost in the wood / Judith Kazantzis -- A kind of desired invasion / Kate Pullinger -- Away games / Moya Roddy -- The cross is gone / Ben Okri --I sweep the sun off rooftops / Hanan Al-Shaykh -- Placing ourselves / Deborah Levy -- Goodbye Duncan / David Deans -- Leicester Square / Adam Zameenzad -- English tea / Margo Glantz -- If England was what England seems / Naomi Mitchison -- Being English / Fleur Adcock -- Fishwanda / Susan Daitch. 
520 |a "The thirty-three contributors all have first-hand experience of the vagaries of English life - Earls Court mice, fascist hatred of a young Pakistani, chocolates that replace sex, Marxists in Finsbury Park, a dinner-party stiff, Lady Sydney and her six children, au pairs in 081, racist policemen - and their insights provide a truth that is, in the best sense, fictional." --Descripción del editor. 
650 0 |a British  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a British  |v Literary collections. 
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650 7 |a Británicos  |v Colecciones literarias.  |2 UDESA 
700 1 |a Rowe, Marsha,  |e ed.