
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women - Virago Modern Classics (Hardback)
Angela Carter (author)- Not available
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women
Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781844086979
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 474 g
Dimensions: 200 x 136 x 34 mm
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