Saints and Strangers

Angela Carter

ISBN 10: 0670811394 / ISBN 13: 9780670811397

Published by Viking, 1986

About this Item

Signed by the Author on the title page. FIrst Printing. previous owner's name on front endpaper. Seller Inventory # 7610

Bibliographic Details

Title: Saints and Strangers

Publisher: Viking

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Focusing on the New World of fact and imagination, this collection of eight short fictional pieces features three stories set in early America and others from locations around the world

Reviews:

Carter's short stories demand a certain amount of complicity; they echo and reverberate for the reader who has some knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe, of Baudelaire, of Lizzie Borden, of myth and folktale. In "The Fall River Axe Murders" the reader must remember that Lizzie Borden murdered her father and stepmother. Carter's story, which covers Lizzie's life in the few weeks preceding her bloody act, meticulously reproduces life in Fall River: the clothes Lizzie wore, the house she lived in, relationships in the doomed family. "The Kiss" takes us to Samarkand and the myth of Tamburlaine and his wife; "Peter and the Wolf" deals in an original way with the folktale of a human child raised by wolves. Carter's smooth, silky stories are rich with sensuous detail. The reader feels the heat, sees the fabric of clothes, walks the streets of the cities Carter recreates. Recommended. Marcia Tager, Tenafly,
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