Fireworks (Transaction Large Print Books) - Hardcover

Carter, Angela

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9781850892441: Fireworks (Transaction Large Print Books)

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ISBN 10: 185089244X ISBN 13: 9781850892441

Publisher: Isis Large Print Books, 1988

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A selection of contemporary Gothic stories in which erotic, exotic, and horrific themes are used to reveal the influence of the unconscious and illuminate our place in the world

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About the Author

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.

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"Exotic and sensuous" * Sunday Times * "Luminous" * The Age * "It is hard to imagine the literary landscape without Angela Carter. Hers is a legacy that extends way beyond the bounds of her own work" * Independent * "I can't think of anyone who is at that pitch of intellectual commentary, fictional experimentation and fullness of expression. I'm not a patch on her. Jesus, I wish I was" -- Ali Smith "Its autobiographical stories set in Japan, where she had gone to live with a Japanese lover, give off a direct and poignant emotion. They show her changing, too" * Independent *

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