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Transmission (90s)

Transmission (90s)

by Atima Srivastava (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

    $3.39
Synopsis

Transmission is a novel set in the media world of the nineties. Angie, a second-generation immigrant from india in her twenties, is an up-and-coming television researcher in Soho. When she meets Lol and his wife Kathi, who are both HIV-positive, she thinks she has discovered the perfect story for a timely documentary. But neither Kathi nor Angie realise how television can completely change your life, how being a subject of the medium can also mean being a victim. Through Angie?s family complexities, the death of her friend and her burgeoning relationship with Lol, this streetwise, witty novel tackles important moral dilemmas of our times and establishes Atima Srivastava as a distinctive new voice in British fiction.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Jan 1992
ISBN 10: 1852422289
ISBN 13: 9781852422288

Media Reviews
?Comedy that is both bleak and tender, sharp-edged portraits of media makers and monsters, a wry look at urban styles of love and survival by a born story-teller.? Michele Roberts ?It is easy to make the world of television unpleasant in fiction, but to introduce the issue of AIDS into this glossy hell demands far greater sensitivity from the writer. Srivastava has succeeded admirably in getting her point across? Independent ?Srivastava plays down the media satire and yuppie melancholy, the whole degraded ?80s urban romance in favour of a more straightforward investigation into ethics and loyalty, desire and duty, brought into sharp relief by a ?My Beautiful Launderette?-style backdrop of multicultural London? i-D
Author Bio
Atima Srivastava was born in Bombay in 1961 and moved to Britain with her family in 1969. After studying at Essex University, she went on to work in the film industry. Her film Dancing in the Dark was shown to critical acclaim on Channel 4. Transmission is her first book.