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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
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If I had only one word to describe Angela Carter, I think I might go with "audacious". One lonely adjective, however, never satisfied Carter or me. Carter's imagination is dark, elemental and disturbing, and it wends its way through a rich intellectual landscape. Her prose does tend towards the purple, and while that's part of her charm, it can also be excessive. It can even tire the reader so that she may miss or fail to appreciate inspired images like a tumbledown house "with a look of oracular blindness", a child with "a whim of iron", or Autumn giving the forest "a sickroom hush". At their best, however, her work exposes and owns human ugliness and opens the door briefly to primal beauties. Warning: Carter's stories are sometimes gory, and several include scenes of sexual violence
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ISBN:
9780140255287
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/01/1997
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Language:
English
Pages:
480
Height:
1.08IN
Width:
5.34IN
Thickness:
1.00
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
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Copyright Year:
1997
UPC Code:
2800140255289
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Salman Rushdie
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Angela Carter
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