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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
Angela Carter
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Description for The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
hardcover.
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 to re-enact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de siecle background; a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carter's last novel), the ... Read more
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 to re-enact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de siecle background; a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carter's last novel), the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841593838
SKU
9781841593838
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About 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.
Reviews for The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more