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    [year] => 2021
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    [language] => ENGLISH
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    [title] => The Black Dreams
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    [synopsis] => I don't recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets. 
 
 There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other. 
 
 So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King's introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland. 
 
 The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a 'strange' territory of in-between states and unstable realities in which understanding is unreliable. Obsessions, death and rebirth, violence, sexuality, retribution and apocalypse are all part of the rich fabric of The Black Dreams. 
 
 Bringing together some of Northern Ireland's finest writers, along with some of the best new talents, The Black Dreams celebrates and extends the rich tradition of the weird, surreal and dream-like in Northern Irish writing. It is also a powerful act of imagining and storytelling — a vibrant, vivid and exhilarating exploration of a world we cannot, or choose not, to see.
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    [subtitle] => Strange stories from Northern Ireland
    [publisher] => Blackstaff Press Ltd
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