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Cover artist
  
Sarah Ball

Publication date
  
1990

Pages
  
182

Originally published
  
1990

Page count
  
182

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

ISBN
  
0-241-12922-2

Author
  
Philip Ridley

Publisher
  
Hamish Hamilton

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Flamingoes in Orbit is a collection of short stories by Philip Ridley. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton ltd in 1990. It was Ridley's third literary work for adults after his 1988 novella Crocodilia and his 1989 novel In The Eyes of Mr Fury.

Contents

Stories

The book is composed of thirteen short stories, with the title story first:

  • Flamingoes in Orbit
  • The Turbulence of Butterfly Wings
  • Embracing Verdi
  • Pins
  • Towers of Belief
  • What We Care to Remember
  • The Fear of Hyacinths
  • A Shoe Three Inches Big
  • Leviathan
  • What's Here
  • Rattlesnake
  • Go
  • The Barbaric Continuity

    • Previously published stories

    Before the full publication of the collection two of Ridley's stories had already appeared in other anthologies. Embracing Verdi had appeared in the collection Oranges and lemons: stories by gay men (edited by David Rees and Peter Robbins) in 1987 and Leviathan was featured in the collection 20 Under 35: Original Stories by Britain's Best New Young Writers (edited by Peter Straus) in 1988.

    References

    Flamingoes in Orbit Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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