THE BLOODY CHAMBER
Carter, Angela
ISBN 10: 0060107081 ISBN 13: 9780060107086
Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1979
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Octavo, 164 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$8.95". Chipping to top of dust jacket. Age toning to top edges of dust jacket. Slight foxing to edges of textblock. Pen marking to front free endpaper. Shelved Hardcover Science Fiction. 1390224. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1390224
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Combining the erotic and the sinister, the lyrical and the grisly, and the comic and the demonic, these twelve stories are startling transformations of such classic children's tales as Bluebeard's Castle and Beauty and the Beast
About the Author: Angela Carter (1940 -1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves, based on her story. She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London.
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Title: THE BLOODY CHAMBER
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
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The Bloody Chamber
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Original Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First US edition published in 1979. Originally published in the UK by Gollancz in 1979. Ex library copy. Blue boards have slight fading to edges and spine. Some browning and spotting to page edges and library stamp across the tops of the page edges. Residue from sticky tape and library labels on front and rear endpapers. Red biro tick on rear pastedown. Library stamps to contents page. No jacket. First printing. Seller Inventory # 019485
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The Bloody Chamber
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The Bloody Chamber
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ISBN 10: 0060107081
ISBN 13: 9780060107086
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine dust jacket. The Fine binding is blue paper over boards, dark blue cloth-backed, with a design stamped on the cover, gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. About the book: (from the dust jacket) The Bloody Chamber is an amazing book. Its material is drawn from fairy and folk tales such as "Bluebeard's Castle," "Puss in Boots "The Erlking." "Little Red Ridinghood," "Beauty and the Beast," as well as from the darker annals of the folk imagination where the myths of werewolves and vampires, ogres and devils are kept. Whether Miss Carter 1s turning a familiar children's story bottom side up or inventing new plots for atavistic spirits, landscapes, and motifs, the result is the same sense of striking originality and virtuosity. Think of Grimms' fairy tales as retold now by Anaïs Nin, now by Isak Dinesen. Take, for example, her version of Little Red Ridinghood. It is called "The Company of Wolves" and begins with a baleful meditation on this "carnivore incarnate .gray as famine, as unkind as plague," and its mournful howl. Hence, the emergence in the folk mind of werewolves. One such creature, metamorphosed into a handsome young hunter, meets a ripe virgin on a forest trail. A rustic seduction ensues during which he shows her his compass that can take him through the woods much faster than the trail that leads to her grandmother's The hunter arrives in plenty of time to strip to his pelt and devour grandmother. The virgin comes along, realizes her danger, then appetizingly takes off her clothes as she is told and kisses the wolf, laughing at his threats to eat her. Animal nature takes it course: "she will lay his fearful head on her lap and she will pick out the lice from his pelt and perhaps. eat them as she would do in a savage marriage ceremony. And so on through these twelve stories each different, each, in its unique way, a gem They are connected by a common theme women misled by the masculine abuse of the life-force, who reclaim it for themselves and for the benefit of us all. Miss Carter is already regarded in England as one of the four or five outstanding writers of her generation, and her previous novels have gained her an impressive following among American writers. About the author: (from the dust jacket) ANGELA CARTER is the author of seven novels. the most recent of which is The Passion of New Eve (1977), and a feminist study of pornography, The Sadeian Woman, She occasionally lives in London, having "specialized in not having an address for most of my adult life.". Seller Inventory # 15420
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