Book description
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete
with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is
thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and
pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave
her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides
to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying
paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the
darkest limits of her imagination.
Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains
is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic
fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.
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.
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author
and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is
one of America's pioneering postmodernists. Coover currently splits
his time between the USA and London.
