Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON
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.
Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality -- Ian McEwan She can
glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from
depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the
elusive power of the original tales The Times The Bloody Chamber's
interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's
narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive Observer Extraordinary
and beautiful -- Peter Redgrove Angela Carter was born in 1940 and
read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in
Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and
Australia. Her first novel,
Shadow Dance
, was published in 1965, followed by the
Magic Toyshop
in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote
a further four novels, together with three collections of short stories,
two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela
Carter died in 1992.
