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Zusatztext First published in hardback in 1979! this is one of Angela Carter's darkand erotic fairy tales. "She writes prose that lends itself to magnificentset pieces of fastidious sensuality" Ian McEwan. A Vintage title. Informationen zum Autor Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance , was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop , won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions , the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992. Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters , follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London. Klappentext Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales woven in seductive, luminous storytelling. Beauty is turned into a Beast, Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch and, in the title story, a beautiful young pianist is swept into the world of a rich and sinister aristocrat, a man whose previous three wives have all died in mysterious circumstances. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. 'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan 'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood With an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson Zusammenfassung WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories....
