Book description
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack
from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with
Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman
made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on
his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio
must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be
with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of
emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.
A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire
Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth,
love and identity.
Angela Carter was born in 1940 of a Scottish father and Yorkshire
mother. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an
early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote
nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is
often referred to as a writer of magic realism. She died in 1992.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She
is the author of Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and
Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental,
Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.
