Burning Your Boats

“A fine, fierce, incandescent talent” Scotland on Sunday “Burning Your Boats brings together her four volumes of short fiction…They testify to Carter’s range, daring and her invention. An important book” Irish Times “A writer cultured in every sense of the word, whose syntax is ever artful, whose vocabulary is zestfully arcane, whose erudition manifests itself in her work in a shimmering play of parody and illusion. She was one of the century’s best writers, and her stories are among her finest works” Sunday Times “This is the voice the young generation are flocking to read and study, and these marvellous collected stories wonderfully explain why no pigeon-hole could ever contain her creator. When you read all the stories collected together, a sense of joy erupts that such writing can exist” Daily Telegraph “World-class stories, woven from their author’s high humour, glittering imagination, vital erudition and warm intelligence” Independent

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992.

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