A special edition of the best stories by Angela Carter, the master of fabulous, seductive, luminous storytelling
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.
The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon, the first
authorised biography of Angela Carter, is published in October
2016.
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
*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!’
*Daily Telegraph*
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