Summary
Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain’s greatest and most original writers.
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire’s handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet’s passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds. Edgar Allan Poe, with his face of an actor, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099480716 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099480719 |
| Author: | Angela Carter |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 1996 |
| Weight: | 109g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 9mm |
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Critics Review
Angela Carter has language at her fingertips
“Black Venus displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best… Whatever her subject Miss Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare. And as the voices call out, the images blaze, one is saved from an excess of fantasy by earthy realism, a sudden bark of humour” Sunday Telegraph “The “radicalised” Carter tells her tales of terror ferociously, with black brilliance. Black Venus is shot with dazzling lightning. It is thunderous and magnetic; irresistible even when it seems most repellent” Courrier Mail “Earthy, bawdy and bizarre in turn, there is a fine intelligence at work here” Daily Telegraph “She was one of the century’s finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works” – Lucy Hughes-Hallett Sunday Times “Angela Carter has language at her fingertips” New Statesman
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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