Unreal City
“Havana will be a magical city,” Meyer Lansky told Armando Jaime, his driver. ... His home was in Phoenix, where he ran the racing wire for Meyer Lansky and commuted to Las Vegas to run the Flamingo (and later the ... l. Notes to chAPter 2.
- A man is forced to reassess his life when faced with a literal breakdown of reality. Weird nightmares, fantastic visions and haunted dreams populate this anthology of tales featuring the Circle City as it never was.
Unreal City contains five highly charged stories about relationships: “Echoes into Eternity,” “Evelyn Dalton-Hoyt,” “Emordana,” “The Yellowknife Retrospective,” and “Objet d’Art.” The stories address gender, narcissism ...
Urban experience in modern European literature and art From earliest recorded history the city has formed one of the magnetic poles of human existence . But the growth of great metropolises during the nineteenth century gave an ...
Robert Liddell produced during his lifetime a distinguished list of novels and critical works. With the recent reissue of his Oxford novel, The Last Enchantments, and the autobiographical Stepsons and...
From the nights in old Soho, where an anonymous green door was the gateway to a decadently dingy paradise, to the days amid the shabby post-industrial elegance of Hackney's canalside warehouses, this is a nostalgic love song to the drifters ...
Born into one of the feudal families of the Lebanon mountains and educated in the west, the anonymous narrator returns to ruins, haunted by memories of his country's fractured past, to search for the mistress who betrayed him in his youth.
A Strange Case from the 1890s in fin de siècle Paris. A chilling tale of decadence and delirium, to quicken even the deadest, darkest heart ...
Would you take that gift if offered it? Or would you choose to keep your humanity and your compassion for others? It's London 1925. This is a city only half recovered from the losses and anguish of the First World War.
Sarah Wilkes is desperate enough to do anything, even make a deal with the Devil -- or in her case, a familiar spirit. Is finding out the truth worth becoming part of the Unreal City forever?