ARGONAUT BOOKS

Angela Carter has taken old fairy stories, subtly altering and changing them to create strange glittering tales that will haunt the reader. Reviews "The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive"Observer"Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality"Ian McEwan"Angela Carter has extended the life and richness of the fable form itself partly through language that is both pellucid and sensual, but chiefly through imagination of such Ariel reach that she can glide from ancient to modern, fr...Read More