Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Carter
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780349008462
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00846-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary