In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of 'abroad'. Some of her most brilliant writing is devoted to Japan - exotically and erotically described here - so perfectly suited to the Carter pen. Domestically, Angela Carter used her mordant wit and accurate eye to inspect England and Englishness as it manifested itself throughout the land. Then she turns to her own craft, and her extraordinarily wide-ranging book reviews are masterpieces.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780860682691
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 170 g
Dimensions: 169 x 199 x 16 mm
Angela Carter's journalism exists somewhere in the territory marked out by Roland Barthes of MYTHOLOGIES, middle-period Orwell, and early Tom Wolfe - Guardian
Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century - Independent
With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right - Guardian
Her writing occupies a unique place in twentieth century fiction, a place where myths around gender and sexuality are debunked and where not even the deepest darkest recesses of human imagination are off-limits - Fay Godwin, British Library
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