Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099583070 ISBN 13: 9780099583073

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2013

Synopsis

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKE

Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you’ve ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along. Bursting with ideas, culturally astute and sparklingly witty, this comprehensive volume of Angela Carter’s journalism is the most down-to-earth and entertaining companion to latter twentieth-century thought you’ll ever need.

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Review:

"Shaking a Leg reveals a stunning range of interests that marks her out not just as one of our greatest novelists and short story writers but as one of our best literary and cultural critics... If you would like better to understand the workings of the second half of our century, then this is the book" (Ali Smith Scotsman)

"Reading Shaking a Leg is like sitting down with a friend who is clever, funny, outrageous, compassionate, anecdotal and sociologically aware; someone with a great memory and a quirky, associative train of thought; someone who can make you laugh and say "yes" out loud before you turn the page to devour her next paragraph, whether it be about Hollywood or Venice, her dotty parents or her favourite writers. Carter is endlessly entertaining, endearing and down-to-earth in this admirably comprehensive collection" (Irish Times)

"It is her journalism, collected in the 1997 volume 'Shaking a Leg', to which I find myself returning again and again, struck freshly by its forthrightness, its imagination, its unpredictability - and by the sheer range of subjects on which she was fluent" (Susannah Clapp Guardian)

"The range of her interests is quite dazzling. She is the voice of an entire generation" (Washington Post)

"Shocking, willful, extravagant - every cut and quip at the same time reveals a striking intellectual acuity" (New York Times)

Book Description:

Forthright, funny, unpredictable: Carter is capable of illuminating any topic with the brilliance of her prose.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099583070
• ISBN 13: 9780099583073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800