Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive,luminous storytelling.
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.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099588115Number of pages: 176Weight: 127 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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'Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times.'- Grazia
'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
'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
'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
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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