The Alpine Fanatasy of Victor B and Other Stories (Paperback)

Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol all wrote fiction - but there has never previously been a compllation of the prose of British artists. "The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories" brings together seventeen of Britain's leading contemporary artists in one collection. Moving, humorous and sometimes deeply macabre, these stories deal with dementia, mortality, mass murder and madness. A young woman derails a Virgin train, killing twenty people, as an experiment in conquering death; a boy fakes an accident to get the attention of the girl of his dreams; an alpine hiker advocates murder as an environmental clean-up solution; and time goes backwards as we witness the 'unlynching' of a paedophile by the local neighbourhood watch. Challenging and expanding notions of art and what artists do, "The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories" is a haunting exploration of the impulses that drive today's artists.

General

Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Jeremy Akerman • Eileen Daly
Dimensions:	194 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - With flaps
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-85242-926-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	1-85242-926-7
Barcode:	9781852429263

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