Love (King Penguin) - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140108513 ISBN 13: 9780140108514

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

Annabel,an artist adrift in the political and sexual crosscurrents of the 1960s and the whirling undertow of her mind,falls into marriage with blithely adulterous lee and his dangerous brother buzz. Even in the cocoon of an english university town,their relationship evolves into obsession, betrayal,deceit,voyeurism,violence and suicide. This is what love is all about. Angela carter wrote this novel in 1969- in an afterword written more than fifteen years later she follows her characters into the present and provocatively proposes that unrequited love is the essence and revenge of heterosexuality. OM

About this title

Review:

"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)

From the Publisher:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140108513
• ISBN 13: 9780140108514
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128