Pleasure beach

Helen Palmer

Pleasure Beach is a queer love story set in Blackpool on one day: 16 June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, it follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of 3 young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as Homer’s Odyssey and James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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Pleasure Beach is a queer love story from the North West’s saucy seaside paradise, Blackpool, on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, Pleasure Beach follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as Homer’s Odyssey and James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Hedonist and wannabe playwright Olga Adessi, 19, is struggling along the prom to get to her morning shift at the chippy with a monstrous hangover, trying to remember exactly what happened last night with Rachel Watkins, 19, a strange and fragile girl she had an encounter with the night before. Former gymnast and teenage mum Treesa Reynolds, 19, is off to the Sandcastle Waterpark with her mum Lou and daughter Lulu, looking forward to a sausage and egg McMuffin on the way.

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Weight 0.258 kg
Dimensions 17.8 × 17.7 × 2.8 cm
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English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

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General – Trade / Code: K