Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks Hardback Book

In The Bloody Chamber, Carters famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Ridings grandmother is stoned to death as a witch a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middleaged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode to reenact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de sicle background a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carters last novel), the comic, the bawdy and the lifeenhancing prevail. An irrepressible elderly lady recalls the many colourful decades she and her sister spent as vaudeville performers a tale as full of twins and mistaken identities as any plot of Shake speares. The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everymans Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume. | Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks Hardback Book