Several Perceptions
$32.00
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 March 1997
Summary
Centre stage in Angela Carter’s unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans.
In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which motivates his contemporaries, Joseph frees a badger from the local zoo; sends a turd airmail to the President of the United States; falls in lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860490941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860490948 |
| Author: | Angela Carter |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 1997 |
| Weight: | 120g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 129mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Angela Carter has language at her fingertips
… One of its most vivacious and compelling voices * Independent *A picture of the Swinging Sixties without the romantic gloss of middle-aged memories * Sunday Times *Whatever her subject, Angela Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare * Sunday Telegraph *Angela Carter has language at her fingertips * New Statesman *
About The Author
Angela Carter
One of Britain’s most original writers, Angela Carter published her first novel, SHADOW DANCE, in 1965. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP won the 1969 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS the 1968 Somerset Maugham Prize. Carter’s death in 1992 ‘robbed the English literary scene of one of its most vivacious and compelling voices’.
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