Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces - Hardcover
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In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirrored chamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiled Englishwoman abandoned by her Japanese lover. An itinerant puppet show becomes a theatre of murderous lust. A walk through the forest ends in a nightmarish encounter with a gun-toting nymph and her hermaphrodite 'aunt'. Not simply a book of tales, Fireworks is a headlong plunge into an alternate universe, the unique creation of one of the most fertile, dark, irreverent, and baroquely beautiful imaginations in contemporary fiction.
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Fireworks : nine profane pieces
Seller: Cape Breton Regional Library, Sydney, NS, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes, with plastic cover. Book is square and binding is tight. Contents are clean. Only 6 library circulations. Former library book with usual library stamps, tape stains, markings and shelf wear. Seller Inventory # 7138
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FIREWORKS. Nine Profane Pieces.
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Quartet Books, London. 1974., 1974
ISBN 10: 0704320436
ISBN 13: 9780704320437
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Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
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8vo, 122pp. A very good paperback copy. Slightly rubbed covers and mild foxing. Uncorrected proof copy. . Proof copy. Seller Inventory # 72801
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Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
Published by
QUARTET BOOKS, 1974
ISBN 10: 0704320436
ISBN 13: 9780704320437
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket. Slight water damage to bottom edge of DJ that is only visible to front flap and reverse of DJ. Slight tanning to page edges. Internally clean. Very good . Very good - condition. Seller Inventory # S01A110007
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