The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks

Angela Carter, Joan Acocella

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Everyman's Library
15 March 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

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, 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 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, Carter's 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-

speare's. The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everyman's Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.

By: Angela Carter
Introduction by: Joan Acocella
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 545g
ISBN: 9781841593838
ISBN 10: 1841593834
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 15 March 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 up. -- Neil Gaiman * Daily Telegraph *