The invention of Angela Carter : a biography /
"Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern...
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Vintage,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2016 |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
"Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself - as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer - and how she came to write such seductive and distinctive masterworks as The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. Because its subject "With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work"-- |
Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus in 2016"--Title page verso. |
Carrier Form: | xvii, 525 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780099575726 (paperback) : 0099575728 (paperback) |
Index Number: | PR6053 |
CLC: | K835.615.6 |
Call Number: | K835.615.6/C323G |