The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter - ISBN: 9781841593838
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Haunting fairy tales, bawdy twins, and unforgettable, subversive imagination unleashed.

The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks

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  • Hardcover

    504 pages

  • Release Date

    15 March 2018

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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
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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Critics Review

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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