Angela Carter
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
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This collection of short stories confirms a great writer's matchless imagination and talent. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; an earnest student is taken on a gothic ride through the ambiguous residue of Hollywood's golden age; Alice is transmuted by a crazed fruit-grower in Prague, and Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour, transfigured by wilderness and solitude.Angela Carter's admirers, denied the prospect of any more of her fat, rich, celebratory novels, will seize on the plump and piquant raisins in the book with gratitude Times Litera…
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This collection of short stories confirms a great writer's matchless imagination and talent. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; an earnest student is taken on a gothic ride through the ambiguous residue of Hollywood's golden age; Alice is transmuted by a crazed fruit-grower in Prague, and Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour, transfigured by wilderness and solitude.Angela Carter's admirers, denied the prospect of any more of her fat, rich, celebratory novels, will seize on the plump and piquant raisins in the book with gratitude Times Literary SupplementMyths and movies, fairytales and pantomime mingle in celebration of her buoyant life Mail-on-SundayCarter's perspective on the American Dream is ironic and wry ... the collection is worth buying for the Lizzie Broden story alone Michele Roberts, Sunday Express
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4090-4217-4
- EAN: 9781409042174
- Produktnummer: 14336041
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 329 KB
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