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Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile: Adelle Stripe

Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile: Adelle Stripe

by Adelle Stripe (Author), Adelle Stripe (Author), Adelle Stripe (Author)

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    Paperback 2017

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Synopsis

Best known for her classic black comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Andrea Dunbar wrote three plays before dying at a tragically young age. This new literary portrayal features a cast of real and imagined characters set against the backdrop of the infamous Buttershaw estate during the Thatcher era.

A bittersweet tale of the north/south divide, it reveals how a shy teenage girl defied the circumstances into which she was born and went on to become one of her generation's greatest dramatists. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is a poignant piece of kitchen sink noir that tells Dunbar's compelling story in print for the very first time.

Adelle Stripe's writing has been described as a 'genuine breath of fresh air'. Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile is her keenly anticipated debut novel.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Fleet
Published: 02 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 0708898955
ISBN 13: 9780708898956

Media Reviews
Snaps and prickles and brings a talented, troubled woman to life. [Stripe] gives an important story a real spark: Dunbar's energy and mischief bubble in the bleakness * Guardian *
An impressively accomplished and important first novel. In a beautifully rendered double narrative Adelle Stripe gives voice to a lost genius. Heartfelt, passionate and profoundly relevant -- Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm
Stitched together from letters and scripts, newspaper cutting and fractured memory, it is an undeniably harsh, yet fair portrait of one of the UK s most original voices * Yorkshire Post *
This outstanding debut novel is told so naturally that it feels that we are there alongside her. A great achievement -- Jenni Fagan, author of The Panopticon
Everything about this novel, the stuff of it, is wondrously, awfully, beautifully alive, as teeming and seething and tragic as Andrea Dunbar's own wild work and life. My book of the year so far -- Niall Griffiths, author of Sheepshagger
A beautiful period piece of 1980s Britain, as funny and sad as anything by Dunbar herself -- Alex Preston * Observer *

Stripe's novel mixes fiction and biography in a manner that brings to mind the work of the late Gordon Burn . . . It fizzes like two Disprin in a pint of cider. The author's voice and Dunbar's mingle to create not just a portrait of an
artist - funny, mischievous, reckless and truthful - but also divisions of class, geography and opportunity which continue to shape this country. You can read it in an afternoon and should; there are loo few British novels as effervescent or as relevant as this

-- Andy Miller * Spectator *