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A collection of the best adaptations of classic fairy tales, with a feminist flare, modern twists, and carnal delights. Carter's writing is everything that is great about the perfect short story. Every word synergizes with the others to create layers of meaning that resonate with the soul, heart, and mind. Reading it is an intense experience.Carter uses visceral prose to exhilarate and titillate. Each tale offers suspense and satisfaction on a primordial level. If you like Neil Gaiman, you will like Angela Carter. Recommended By Alex K., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernaturals most celebrated book.
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves she breathed new life into familiar fairy tales and legends in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. This edition features a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Nebula and World Fantasy Awardwining author, one of a new generation of writers who've been inspired by Carter's brand of fantastical, subversive, boundlessly imaginative fiction.
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“A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant...distinguished by bold, inflected language and ornate, indeed often bloody, imagery.” Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
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“The tales are retold by Angela Carter with all her supple and intoxicating bravura.” The New York Review of Books
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“She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber — her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.” Margaret Atwood, The Observer
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“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality...dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.” Ian McEwan
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“The best horror writer of the 20th century you've probably never heard of....Her most celebrated book is a high gothic collection of short stories called The Bloody Chamber that you should read immediately if the genre holds any appeal for you.” New York magazine's Vulture
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.