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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories [Paperback]

Angela Carter (Author)
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Publication Date: 11 July 1996

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIE

As 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.

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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (11 July 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099592916
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099592914
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 107,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A fine, fierce, incandescent talent (Scotland on Sunday )

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

A writer cultured in every sense of the word, whose syntax is ever artful, whose vocabulary is zestfully arcane, whose erudition manifests itself in her work in a shimmering play of parody and illusion. She was one of the century's best writers, and her stories are among her finest works (Sunday Times )

This is the voice the young generation are flocking to read and study, and these marvellous collected stories wonderfully explain why no pigeon-hole could ever contain her creator. When you read all the stories collected together, a sense of joy erupts that such writing can exist (Daily Telegraph )

World-class stories, woven from their author's high humour, glittering imagination, vital erudition and warm intelligence (Independent )

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The essential collection of short stories by a daring, joyful writer
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Dreams Are Made of This 18 Sep 2008
By Oliver Redfern
Format:Paperback
Reading a short story by Angela Carter is the equivalent of visiting a friend who has travelled the world and now lives by herself in an apartment filled with cats, trinkets and incense. Some days, as you sit in this friend's living room, waiting for her to brew some exotic tea, the scent of burning incense lulls you into a reverie, the way in which the sunlight hits the smoke gives her living room a mysterious feel. At other times, your friend makes the mistake of lighting too many incense sticks, keeping the windows closed, the curtains shut; the items hanging on her wall suddenly look dull, the clothes hanging off her body tawdry, the bright red lipstick on her face wrong for the occasion.

When Carter is good, her stories transcend their fairy tale roots like dreams with hidden meanings. When Carter is bad, your mind drifts away from every sentence and all you can think of is skipping to the next tale
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5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive collection of Carter's short stories 7 July 2005
By A. Donovan
Format:Paperback
Contains useful intro by Salmon Rushdie.
Early Work, 1962-6
- The Man Who loved a Double Bass
A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces
- 9 short stories

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979
- All 10 short stories

Black Venus, 1985
- All 8 stories

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
- All 9 stories

Uncollected Stories, 1970-81

Appendix: Afterward to Fireworks - only place this is published!

First publications

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Fairy Tales for a modern world 26 Jan 2002
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Angela Carter once likened fairytales to one king going over to a another king's house to borrow a cup of sugar. This is her wholly individual take on many traditional short stories. A collection of many of her works available for the first time in one collection - burning your boats is, in essence the very best of Angela Carter.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book
I have had this book of short stories for years and buy it for friends for presents, it is just amazing. Angela Carter writes like no author has done, ever.
Published 6 months ago by Ms. E. Crofts
4.0 out of 5 stars Virtuoso stories that mix the magic and mundane
The world of an Angela Carter short story is a world at once fantastic and familiar. Tigers, werewolves and other beasts stalk through; Bluebeard, Red Riding Hood and Puss-in-Boots... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Orna Ross
4.0 out of 5 stars Burning Your Boats? This Woman's Writing Is On Fire!
Burning Your Boats brings together the four collections of short stories that Angela Carter released, in addition to a further six stories that had previously been published. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Jimbo
5.0 out of 5 stars just wonderful!
why have i not heard of this author before?? this is a great book because its a compilation of four previous books , better value for money. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2011 by dcm
3.0 out of 5 stars Burning your boats by Angela Carter
My first introduction to this author.Beware !The short stories are rather weird but perhaps I should re-read them. The varied styles get a bit of getting used to.
Published on 13 Nov 2010 by M. L. Le Dune
5.0 out of 5 stars THOUGHT PROVOKING LITERATURE
Angela Carter consistently writes significantly thought provoking work which can polarise her readership. Read more
Published on 17 May 2009 by Christopher Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful lyrical tales
This thick book of super-short, heavily written, short stories is the literary equivalent of a huge box of luxury chocolates. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2009 by T. Hayton
5.0 out of 5 stars Tales requiring an I.D.
Women who turn INTO wolves among other nightmarish images.Adult tales to be savored slowly, preferably aloud, in front of a fire on a dark and stromy night. Read more
Published on 6 April 1997
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