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"Philip Ridley is a singular writer, a prolific polymath, probably a genius, and the creator of some of the most peculiar, grotesque and compelling British plays (and films) of the last several years" (Time Out) Ridley's film debut The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. Set in the Idaho farmlands of the 1950s, the film follows eight-year-old Seth through a mythical summer where reality is heightened to the level of an hallucinogenic, quasi-fantasy. The Passion of Darkly Noon is a modern fable; echoing the surrealist style of Ridley's dazzling and innovative debut film. A young man roaming the American countryside, the victim of a savage attack on his religious cult, is rescued by Callie, for whom he develops a dangerous obsession. "Provocative, shocking and disturbing, a true original...a masterpiece." (What's On)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: American Dreams
• Subtitle: The Reflecting Skin and The Passion of Darkly Noon
• Author: Philip Ridley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9780413711403
• ISBN: 0413711404
• ID: 04606034
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 224 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. August 1997

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