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'Earthy, bawdy and bizarre in turn, there is a fine intelligence at work here.' Daily Telegraph
'Black Venus displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best. Her fabulous fables all speak for themselves in tones so commanding you feel this must be Baudelaire's mistress, ageing, remembering, still spreading syphilis, or Lizzie Borden restless and fatal in the hot Massachusetts summer. Whatever her subject, Angela Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare. And as the voices call out, the images blaze, one is saved from an excess of fantasy by earthy realism, a sudden bark of humour.' Sunday Telegraph
'She was on the century's finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works.' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
'Angela Carter has language at her fingertips.' New Statesman
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Carter takes the reader straight into the world of Baudelaire's syphilis ridden mistress as she voluptuously and resentfully dances for her poet inspiring him to write his infamous Les Fleurs du Mal. Edgar Allan Poe waits for his bejewelled and theatrical mother to return from death as he sits plagued by the ghosts of his wife. The story of the Golden Herm, a hermaphrodite languishing in an English wood and lustfully pursued by the hairy and perverse Puck, is filled with dazzlingly images that flaunt Angela Carter's command of the English language and its literary traditions. Lizzie Borden restlessly sits in a house full of locked rooms, beset by shapeless terrors and the relentless Massachusetts summer and on the verge of committing murder.
There is an uneven quality in the overall collection as some of the stories are more in the vein of entertaining fables that can suffer from comparison with the richness and exquisite prose found in the best tales Black Venus has to offer. Nor does Black Venus quite reach the heights of more famous works such as Love or Nights at the Circus but the stories contain more than enough reading pleasure to satisfy and delight fans and newcomers alike.
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