Heroes and Villains
$31.42
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2011
Summary
One of two strange and compelling Angela Carter novels, new to Penguin Modern Classics
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192383 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141192380 |
| Author: | Angela Carter |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy’
‘An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy’ * The Times *
‘Angela Carter is a genius’ – Victoria Glendinning
About The Author
Angela Carter
Angela Carter was born in 1940 of a Scottish father and Yorkshire mother. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magic realism. She died in 1992.
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is one of America’s pioneering postmodernists. Coover currently splits his time between the USA and London.
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