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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
By Gordon, Edmund
- ISBN
- 9780190626846 9780190626860
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on April 1, 2017 | arts and humanities
Gordon (English, King's Coll. London) has written the first full-length biography of Angela Carter (1940–92), one of the most important English novelists of the second half of the 20th century. Carter is known, in her novels and short stories (The Magic Toyshop, "The Company of Wolves," etc.) as a writer who incorporates elements of fantasy and fairy-tale imagination in her works. Though there have been previous critical studies of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
