Book description
Angela Carter's journalism could be pungent and powerful, mocking or
lyrical - but it was always acutely observant and brilliantly
entertaining. This volume follows her tracks from the 1960s onwards as
she explores new territories and overturns old ideas, discussing films
or food, feminism or fantasy, Jeans or Japan, science fiction or sex,
Virginia Woolf baking bread or Bob Dylan making hay, This is an
exuberent, fierce, dazzling collection, memorable and enjoyable at once.
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She read English at Bristol University,
and from 1976-8 was a fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield
University. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her
first novel,
Shadow Dance
, was published in 1965, followed by The Magic Toyshop
(1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Several Perceptions
(1968), Love
(1971), The Passion of New Eve
(1977), Nights at the Circus
(1984, James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and Wise Children
(1991). Three collections of her short stories have been published,
Fireworks
(1974) The Bloody Chamber
(1979, Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award) and American Ghosts
and Old World Wonders
(1993). She was author of The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
(1979) and two collections of journalism, Nothing Sacred
and Expletives Deleted
(1992). She died in February 1992.
