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A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wild animal. A whale sings a song to end loneliness.Philip Ridley?s collection of short stories ? like his two adult novels, Crocodilia and In the Eyes of Mr Fury ? became an instant cult classic when first published in 1990. Magical, poetic, heartbreaking and humorous, the sequence explores childhood, family life, romantic love in all its aspects ? lost, unrequited, obsessional ? and does so with a haunting mixture of both the barbaric and the beautiful that has become Ridley?s trademark. In particular, these tales deal with the experience of growing up gay in a world still bristling with prejudice, and they sing and howl with the need for equality and freedom.This edition includes two new stories, ?Alien Heart? and ?Wonderful Insect?, and finally completes a seminal and compelling collection first begun over thirty years ago. REVIEWS?Ridley sets off a deliberate quiet and matter-of-fact prose against touches of glowing passion ...The stories achieve a startling variety. The power of the book as a whole, however, derives from the way in which these different voices blend in a single cry of frustration and regret.? ? Times Literary Supplement.?Menace lurks in the shady corners of family life ... Chilling.? ? Time Out?Ridley is a visionary.? ? Rolling Stone
A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wild animal. A whale sings a song to end loneliness.Philip Ridley?s collection of short stories ? like his two adult novels, Crocodilia and In the Eyes of Mr Fury ? became an instant cult classic when first published in 1990. Magical, poetic, heartbreaking and humorous, the sequence explores childhood, family life, romantic love in all its aspects ? lost, unrequited, obsessional ? and does so with a haunting mixture of both the barbaric and the beautiful that has become Ridley?s trademark. In particular, these tales deal with the experience of growing up gay in a world still bristling with prejudice, and they sing and howl with the need for equality and freedom.This edition includes two new stories, ?Alien Heart? and ?Wonderful Insect?, and finally completes a seminal and compelling collection first begun over thirty years ago. REVIEWS?Ridley sets off a deliberate quiet and matter-of-fact prose against touches of glowing passion ...The stories achieve a startling variety. The power of the book as a whole, however, derives from the way in which these different voices blend in a single cry of frustration and regret.? ? Times Literary Supplement.?Menace lurks in the shady corners of family life ... Chilling.? ? Time Out?Ridley is a visionary.? ? Rolling Stone