The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - E-book - ePub

Name: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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Author: Angela Carter
ISBN: 9781409015369

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Angela Carter

Helen Simpson

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Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. 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. Whether you're discovering these stories for the first time, or revisiting them after years away, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories remains an astounding collection by one of the twentieth century's most exciting and original writers.'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan, author of Lessons'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood, author of The Testaments Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson

Date de parution

31/10/2012
Editeur

Vintage Digital
ISBN

978-1-4090-1536-9
EAN

9781409015369
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ePub

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Biographie d'Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992. Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters, follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010).
A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in London.