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21%OFFAngela Carter - Nothing Sacred - 9780860682691 - V9780860682691
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Nothing Sacred

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Description for Nothing Sacred Paperback. * A magnificent selection of Angela Carter 's journalistic and critical work, this shows her as one of the funniest and most perceptive critics of our age, a maverick who didn't miss a thing. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACD; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of 'abroad'. Some of her most brilliant writing is devoted to Japan - exotically and erotically described here - so perfectly suited to the Carter pen. Domestically, Angela Carter used her mordant wit and accurate eye to inspect England and Englishness as it ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860682691
SKU
V9780860682691
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About Angela Carter
One of Britain's most original writers, Angela Carter was highly lauded for her novels, short stories and journalism. She died in February 1992.

Reviews for Nothing Sacred
Angela Carter's journalism exists somewhere in the territory marked out by Roland Barthes of MYTHOLOGIES, middle-period Orwell, and early Tom Wolfe
Guardian
Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century
Independent
With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right ... Read more

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