The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140076956 ISBN 13: 9780140076950

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

Synopsis

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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From the Publisher:

'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140076956
• ISBN 13: 9780140076950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176