Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter5/25/2023 ![]() And said Salman Rushdie: "She died at the height of her powers. "Her imagination was one of the most dazzling of this century," wrote Marina Warner when Angela Carter died at age fifty-one. Acclaimed as "the poet of the short story," ANGELA CARTER (1940-1992) lived in England, the United States (she taught widely on both coasts), Japan, and Australia. ![]() Among the treasures of this masterly collection: a young Lizzie Borden visits the circus a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a flyblown 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 Renaissance canvases, transfigured by wilderness and solitude. Angela Carter's major preoccupations - violence in the wild and at home fairy stories, ancient and new magic, fabulous and quotidian the frailty and mystery of the flesh and the strength of the spirit - are all examined in startling relief. ![]() From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of reallife outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her early work and uncollected stories. ![]()
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