Product Description

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

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30074 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Review
"* '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 her work in a shimmering play of parody and illusion. She was one of the century's best writers, and her stories are among her finest works' Sunday Times * 'This is the voice the young generation are flocking to read and study, and these marvellous collected stories wonderfully explain why no pigeon-hole could ever contain her creator. When you read all the stories collected together, a sense of joy erupts that such writing can exist' Daily Telegraph"

From the Publisher
'One of the century's finest writer's Sunday Times

About the Author
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 Liewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive collection of Carter's short stories
Contains useful intro by Salmon Rushdie.
Early Work, 1962-6
- The Man Who loved a Double Bass
A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
- 9 short stories

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979
- All 10 short stories

Black Venus, 1985
- All 8 stories

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
- All 9 stories

Uncollected Stories, 1970-81

Appendix: Afterward to Fireworks - only place this is published!

First publications

Fairy Tales for a modern world
Angela Carter once likened fairytales to one king going over to a another king's house to borrow a cup of sugar. This is her wholly individual take on many traditional short stories. A collection of many of her works available for the first time in one collection - burning your boats is, in essence the very best of Angela Carter.

Tales requiring an I.D.
Women who turn INTO wolves among other nightmarish images.Adult tales to be savored slowly, preferably aloud, in front of a fire on a dark and stromy night. These stories are word-dense; keep a dictionary close by. Things are not what they may seem on first reading, or even the second. Not to be missed!