The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter Hardcover Book

Description: The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter, Joan Acocella In The Bloody Chamber, Carters famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Ridings grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, Carters famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Ridings 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 si cle 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, Carters last novel), the comic, the bawdy and the life-enhancing prevail. An irrepressible elderly lady recalls the many colourful decades she and her sister spent as vaudeville performers - a tale as full of twins and mistaken identities as any plot of Shake- speares. The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everymans Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume. Author Biography 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. Review 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 * Review Text She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality Review Quote She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality Promotional "Headline" An omnibus of works by the great novelist and short-story writer, showcasing her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. Details ISBN1841593834 Author Joan Acocella Pages 504 Publisher Everyman Year 2018 ISBN-10 1841593834 ISBN-13 9781841593838 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-03-15 Media Book UK Release Date 2018-03-15 Imprint Everymans Library Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2018-03-15 NZ Release Date 2018-03-15 Series Everymans Library CLASSICS DEWEY 823.914 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123839696;

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