Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories

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Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs 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.

Additional information

Weight 0.393 kg
Dimensions 3.5 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Language

Pages

576

publisher

Year Published

1996-7-11

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099592916

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 Llewellyn 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.

A fine, fierce, incandescent talent

Other text

Burning Your Boats brings together her four volumes of short fiction…They testify to Carter's range, daring and her invention. An important book

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