The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
$44.69
- Hardcover
504 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2018
Summary
An omnibus of works by the great novelist and short-story writer, showcasing her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter’s famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding’s grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593834 |
| Author: | Angela Carter, Joan Acocella |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 504 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 545g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality
She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality * Ian McEwan *
Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said: “You see these fairy stories? Actually, each one of them is a loaded gun. Each of them is a bomb. Watch: if you turn it right it will blow up. – Neil Gaiman * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Angela Carter
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
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