The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories: The Bloody Chamber;the Courtship of Mr Lyon;the Tiger's Bride;Puss-in-Boots;the Erl-King;the Snow Child;the Lady ... Werewolf;the Company of Wolves;Wolf-Alice - Softcover

Angela Carter

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9780140054040: The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories: The Bloody Chamber;the Courtship of Mr Lyon;the Tiger's Bride;Puss-in-Boots;the Erl-King;the Snow Child;the Lady ... Werewolf;the Company of Wolves;Wolf-Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140054049 ISBN 13: 9780140054040

Publisher: Penguin, 1981

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From familiar fairy tales and legends Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories."

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Review:

"A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant."
Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

"She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations."
Ian McEwan

"Carter not only switches her narrative into the wholly explicit but turns the passive predicament of the heroine into one in which the convention of female role-playing seems to have no part, only brisk and derisisve common sense, the best feminine tactic in a tight corner. The tales are retold by Angla Carter with all her supple and intoxicating bravura."
The New York Review of Books

"She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque styleist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity."
Margaret Atwood, The Observer

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