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Synopsis
In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirrored chamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiled Englishwoman abandoned by her Japanese lover. An itinerant puppet show becomes a theatre of murderous lust. A walk through the forest ends in a nightmarish encounter with a gun-toting nymph and her hermaphrodite 'aunt'. Not simply a book of tales, Fireworks is a headlong plunge into an alternate universe, the unique creation of one of the most fertile, dark, irreverent, and baroquely beautiful imaginations in contemporary fiction.
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Fizzing with allegory, symbolism and surprises (- The Times)
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Nine darkly inventive tales from one of Britain's most original and imaginative writers.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0860684024
- ISBN 13 9780860684022
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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Fireworks (VMC)
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Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0860684024
ISBN 13: 9780860684022
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Fireworks
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ISBN 13: 9780860684022
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ISBN 13: 9780860684022
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