Steve's Pretentious Lit. Bit

Steve's next-next-next-next (after whatever six project's he's currently working on) book is about a vampiric - literally - agent (who only kills bad writers).

Our heroine will be a reclusive, disillusioned heiress who, having grown up with money all her life, can't understand what the current economic-meltdown fuss is all about. A "family friend" (read: professional freeloader) who is preparing his own family-expose and wants to ride the wave, convinces her to write her memoirs. As fate would have it, her manuscript lands at the door of our bloodsucking anti-hero, who of course anticipates another exquisite meal...

Except she's good. Damn good. Whether it's robber-baron shrewdness or practical trophy-wife sensibility that she's inherited, she's got a flair for words. Enough to give Drac-agent -who through the years has seen Shakespeare, Hammurabi, Rumi etc etc. - give pause.

Then she bypasses him and e-publishes. Drama ensues.

"Her top was cut so low it could have handled the bass line in a barbershop quartet..."
 
downxandxout said:
The primary texts I need to read for this semesters lit module are as follows:

D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928; London: Penguin, 2006)
Walter Greenwood, Love on the Dole (1932; London: Vintage, 1993)
Lewis Jones, Cwmardy (1937; Cardigan: University of Wales Press, 2006)
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956; London: Penguin, 2006)
John Braine, Room at the Top (1957; London: Arrow, 1989)
Buchi Emecheta, Second-Class Citizen (1974; London: Heinemann, 1994)
Pat Barker, Union Street (London: Virago, 1982)
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting (1993; London: Vintage, 1994)

Just started reading Love on the Dole which is pretty interesting as it's set in 1930's Salford.
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Read this for my Post Colonial module enjoyed it
 
Never heard of Lewis or Selvon. The Colin McInnes trilogy on late 50s/early 60s London was good when I read it about a hundred years ago.
 
Not McInnes' fault of course but the film version of Absolute Beginners was bleedin' awful though. :D
 
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