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Down with Beauty

Down with Beauty

Down with Beauty

Ken Edwards

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Editorial:
Reality Street
Año de edición:
2013
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781874400615
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DOWN WITH BEAUTY explores, in a series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions, the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES, previously published separately.KEN EDWARDS is a writer, editor and publisher. He ran Reality Studios magazine from 1978-88 and later co-founded Reality Street. He lives in Hastings, on the south coast of England, where he currently plays bass guitar with The Moors.

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