The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction by Paul Simpson

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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction by Paul Simpson

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This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac.

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The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction by Paul Simpson

This new Rough Guide will make you a literary buff in the time it takes to say Jack Kerouac. Even if you already know your Hunter S Thompson from your Jim Thompson, you'll still find it hard to resist a book which tells you which cult novel has been implicated in assassinations, which world famous novelist offered to throw himself off a train to prove his devotion to his literary idol and which cult poet and prose stylist inspired a Broadway musical and the Velvet Underground. There's a critical guide to over 150 cult authors - from Kathy Acker to Yevgeny Zamyatin, including potted biographies, their must reads, and their surprising influences. Reviews of 100 cult novels - seminal works by authors who never quite achieved cult status themselves but still produced one classic work. Finally, there's a cult collection - a feast of literary trivia which categorises writers by the diseases they suffered for their art, reveals 12 literary giants who wrote standing up, and pores over the little known fictional epics of Sarah Bernhardt and Benito Mussolini.
Written by the team behind the highly successful Rough Guide to Cult Movies.
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ISBN 13 9781843533870
ISBN 10 1843533871
Title The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
Author Paul Simpson
Series Rough Guides Reference Titles
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher APA Publications
Year published 2005-04-28
Number of pages 368
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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