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HardCover. Pub Date: October 2006 Pages: 160 in Publisher: Virago Press Ltd 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.
HardCover. Pub Date: October 2006 Pages: 160 in Publisher: Virago Press Ltd 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.
Angela Carter
Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. As a teenager she battled anorexia. She began work as a journalist...
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