"Flamingo Land"
Title | "Flamingo Land" |
Year for Search | 2015 |
Authors | Cowling, Ruby |
Secondary Authors | Allfrey, Ellah Wakatama |
Secondary Title | Flamingo Land and Other Stories |
Date Published | 2015 |
Publisher | Freight Press |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | English author, Female author |
Annotation | Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60. |
Info Notes | The story won the London Short Story Prize for 2014. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Female author |
Full Text | 2015 Cowling, Ruby. “Flamingo Land.” Flamingo Land and Other Stories. Ed. Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (London: Flight Press, 2015). Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60. PSt Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family. The story won the London Short Story Prize for 2014. Female author. |