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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

by Angela Carter (Author), Angela Carter (Author), Helen Simpson (Introduction)

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    Paperback 1995

    $11.47
Synopsis

This title comes with an introduction by Helen Simpson. From familiar fairy tales and legends - "Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "Puss in Boots", "Beauty and the Beast", vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 13 Jul 1995
ISBN 10: 0099588110
ISBN 13: 9780099588115
Book Overview: Fairy tales retold and interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.

Media Reviews
Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times * Grazia *
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 * Observer *
Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality -- Ian McEwan
She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales * The Times *
The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said: `You see these fairy stories, these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves? Actually, each one of them is a loaded gun. Each of them is a bomb. Watch: if you turn it right it will blow up.' And we all went: `Oh my gosh, she's right-you can blow things up with these!' -- Neil Gaiman * Daily Telegraph *
Author Bio
Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992