Trip City - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Velocity PressISBN-13:9781913231095ISBN-10:1913231097UPC:9781913231095Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:NoirSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCAQ6P5NQM
In the summer of 1989, when Trip City was first released with a five-track cassette EP by A Guy Called Gerald, there had been no other British novel like it. This was the down and dirty side of London nightclubs, dance music and the kind of hallucinogenic drug sub-culture that hadn't really been explored since Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Maybe this is why Trip City is still known as "the acid house novel" and an underground literary landmark.
Over the decades, Trip City became shrouded in scandal and mystery. The original London book launch literally descended into a riot - shut-down by the Metropolitan Police. Everyone from the makers of Raiders Of The Lost Ark through the director of Candyman tried to adapt the book into a movie - but imploded in the process. And the galleys of the 25th-anniversary edition were destroyed in a fire before they could even be proofed or printed.
Perhaps Trip City is uniquely summed-up by the original publisher, sci-fi legend Brian Aldiss, who wrote of the novel: "In the vintage of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions Of An English Opium Eater - but smack up to date. It's about a young man's descent into hell - a hell that looks very much like London."
Over the decades, Trip City became shrouded in scandal and mystery. The original London book launch literally descended into a riot - shut-down by the Metropolitan Police. Everyone from the makers of Raiders Of The Lost Ark through the director of Candyman tried to adapt the book into a movie - but imploded in the process. And the galleys of the 25th-anniversary edition were destroyed in a fire before they could even be proofed or printed.
Perhaps Trip City is uniquely summed-up by the original publisher, sci-fi legend Brian Aldiss, who wrote of the novel: "In the vintage of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions Of An English Opium Eater - but smack up to date. It's about a young man's descent into hell - a hell that looks very much like London."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Velocity PressISBN-13:9781913231095ISBN-10:1913231097UPC:9781913231095Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:NoirSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCAQ6P5NQM
Miller, Trevor: - Trevor Miller is a British born writer/director, author and playwright from Manchester, England. Early in his career, Record Mirror joked that he "is hailed by some as the voice of a generation." Since 1993 Miller has lived in Los Angeles working on screenplays and films with a diverse roster of actors including Sylvester Stallone, Billy Bob Thornton and Cara Delevingne. His directorial debut, Riot On Redchurch Street starring Sam Hazeldine, Jesse Birdsall and Alysson Paradis, premiered at The East London film Festival in 2012, where Time Out called it "gritty and epic".
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