With an introduction by Helen Simpson. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood,Bluebeard,Puss in Boots,Beauty and the Beast,vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark,sensual,fantastic stories.
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Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784871437Number of pages: 240Weight: 361 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 26 mm
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"She was,among other things,a quirky,original,and baroque stylist,a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase,luscious adjective,witty aphorism,and hearty,up-theirs vulgarity" - Margaret Atwood,Observer
"The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter,for me,is still the one who said: `You see these fairy stories,these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves 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.'And we all went: `Oh my gosh,she's right-you can blow things up with these!'" - Neil Gaiman,Daily Telegraph
"Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times" Grazia
"Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality" - Ian McEwan
"She can glide from ancient to modern,from darkness to luminosity,from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales" The Times
Angela Carter
One of the most prolific and inventive writers of the twentieth century,Angela Carter is a British novelist,poet,and journalist,best known for her award-winning works Nights at the Circus,Wise Children and The Bloody Chamber.
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