Book description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published
in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional
war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as
they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost
connections. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's
haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an
afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the
anguish of middle age.
An excessively stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial
Bohemia..The novel and its afterword form a fascinating study, an
erstwhile aesthetic object unravelled into realism and commitment
Guardian Carter observes her characters with a cool detachment as if
they were specimens on a slide..She catches acutely the dying throes of
the love generation, when Swinging London had run to seed New Society
Angela Carter has language at her fingertips New Statesman Whatever her
subject, Angela Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare
Sunday Telegraph 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.
