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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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Nine darkly inventive tales from one of Britain's most original and imaginative writers.
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1844083675
- ISBN 13 9781844083671
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages160
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces is an anthology of short fiction by Angela C arter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1974 by Quartet Book s Ltd. and contains a collection stories, several of which are based on Car ter's own experiences of living in Japan from 1969 to 1971. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000063976
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