Crocodilia - Ridley, Philip

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Résumé :
When eighteen-year-old Dominic meets his new neighbour, the sexy, green-haired, tattooed punk Billy Crow, it's lust at first sight. And judging from their smouldering first encounter, Billy seems to feel the same way. But when Billy mentions a previous lover, Dominic demands to know all about him. And so a story starts to be told. A strange, fantastic story that begins to obsess Dominic more and more, until he finds himself wondering where that story ends . . . and his story begins. Set in London's East End in 1982, Philip Ridley's novel is a masterwork of LGBTQ fiction with a glittering, labyrinthine narrative and a firework display of images - a house full of crocodiles, Elvis Presley in a gold Cadillac, a cinema bathed in green neon - not to mention sex scenes of such dizzying eroticism that they take the breath away. In the years since its first publication in 1988, Crocodilia has become a cult classic, and for this new edition the author has expanded and developed the novel further, presenting it now - for the first time - as it was always intended. Already known as a visionary film director and one of the most original playwrights of his generation, with this new release Ridley confirms his place as one of our most innovative, distinctive, and dazzling novelists. 'Startling . . . a beautifully conceived flight of the imagination.' - Time Out 'Philip Ridley's stories compel attention.' - The Times (London) 'Ridley is a visionary.' - Rolling Stone...

Biographie:
plus several plays for young people(collectively known as The Storyteller Sequence): Karamazoo, Fairytaleheart, Moonfleece (named as one of the 50 Best Works About Cultural Diversity by the National Centre for Children's Books), the seminal Sparkleshark(the first of the Connections Festival plays - all written for young people - to be staged professionally by the National Theatre), and Brokenville...

Sommaire:
Philip Ridley was born and grew up in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art. He has written many highly regarded and hugely influential stage plays: the seminal The Pitchfork Disney (now published as a Methuen Modern Classic), The Fastest Clock in the Universe(winner of a Time Out Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright,and the Meyer-Whitworth Prize), Ghost from a Perfect Place, Vincent River(nominated for the London Festival Fringe Best Play Award),the highly controversial Mercury Fur, Leaves of Glass, Piranha Heights(nominated for the WhatsOnStage Mobius Award for Best Off West End Production), Tender Napalm(nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award), Shivered (nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New PlayAward), Dark Vanilla Jungle (winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award), Radiant Vermin (nowpublished as a Methuen Modern Classic), Tonight With Donny Stixx, Karagula(nominated for the OffWestEnd Best New PlayAward), The Beast of Blue Yonder, The Poltergeist (winner of the OffWestEnd OnComm Award for Best Live Streamed Play) and Tarantula...