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Burning Your Boats
Angela Carter
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Description for Burning Your Boats
Paperback. As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers. Suitable for Angela Carter aficionados, this title gathers together her work. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 410.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIE
As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are now out of print. In Burning your Boats they are gathered for the first time; this is a key collection and a major event for Angela Carter aficionados.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099592914
SKU
V9780099592914
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-24
About Angela Carter
Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further ... Read more
Reviews for Burning Your Boats
A fine, fierce, incandescent talent
Scotland on Sunday
Burning Your Boats brings together her four volumes of short fiction...They testify to Carter's range, daring and her invention. An important book
Irish Times
A writer cultured in every sense of the word, whose syntax is ever artful, whose vocabulary is zestfully arcane, whose erudition manifests itself in ... Read more
Scotland on Sunday
Burning Your Boats brings together her four volumes of short fiction...They testify to Carter's range, daring and her invention. An important book
Irish Times
A writer cultured in every sense of the word, whose syntax is ever artful, whose vocabulary is zestfully arcane, whose erudition manifests itself in ... Read more