Bibliograph

Ruby, Nina Allan

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Ruby, Nina Allan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Ruby

Responsibility statement

Nina Allan

Summary

The story of Ruby Castle is told in snapshots and fleeting glimpses and secret histories, in tales repeated and reinvented by those who fall under the horror film actress's spell: her childhood sweetheart; an antiquarian bookseller with a passion for magical artefacts; the mistress of the poet who was once Castle's lover; a young girl in a future Russia who dreams of the stars. As worlds collide, the boundaries between the real and the fantastic begin to break down. Is Ruby Castle a living person or a collective fantasy? By the time the final page of Ruby is turned, the world that Castle created through her films has become dangerously indistinguishable from our own

Table Of Contents

B-Side -- The Lammas Worm -- The gateway -- Laburnums -- Stardust -- Wreck of the Julia -- Red Queen

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