Angela Carter (1940–1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves, based on her story of the same name. She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London.
"A magic novel, sexy and eccentric, romantic and tricky." —The
Village Voice Literary Supplement
"Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred
echoes—from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin
and Punch . . . It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and
unsettling." —The New York Times Book Review
Acclaim for Angela Carter
“Carter produced . . . fiction that was lavishly fabulist and
infinitely playful, with a crown jeweler’s style, precise but fully
colored. . . . Her books are . . . revered by fans of speculative
fiction stateside and have influenced writers as diverse as Rick
Moody, Sarah Waters, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette
Winterson and Kelly Link. Salman Rushdie, who became her friend,
described her as ‘the first great writer I ever met.’ Yet her
legacy has been a slow and stealthy one, invisible to many of the
readers who have benefited from it. . . . Most contemporary
literary fiction with a touch of magic, from Karen Russell’s to
Helen Oyeyemi’s, owes something to Angela Carter’s trail-blazing. .
. . If our personal and literary spaces feel more wide open now,
she’s one of the ones we have to thank.” —Laura
Miller, Salon
“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of
fastidious sensuality . . . dreams, myths, fairy tales,
metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly
sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and
darkest manifestations.” —Ian McEwan
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