- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reprint edition (29 Aug 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140255249
- ISBN-13: 978-0140255249
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,968,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Angela Carter's writing is pyrothechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language. She brings the gift of wonder (OBSERVER )
The boldest of English writers (LORNA SAGE )
A great writer ... A real one-off (SALMAN RUSHDIE ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
The boldest of English writers (LORNA SAGE )
A great writer ... A real one-off (SALMAN RUSHDIE ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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* In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a disturbing and delicious tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie which shows one of the 20th century's greatest writers at the start of a dazzling career.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In this first novel Carter examines the concept of grotesques, People who live in the shadows and twilight zone of their own "Wasteland" questioning their own reality. Living amongst the refuge and rubbish of society these nocturnal creatures are both repulsive yet familiar. The main character "Honeybuzzard" is a modern day "Jekyll and Hyde" cruel and capricious, but instantly recognisable in today's hedonistic society, living for the moment and pursuing his desire at any cost. A character for whom seeing is a complex business hence the permanent dark glasses. There are many Freudian allusions; Honeybuzzard and his distorted vision, Emily represented as a super ego, and Morris as the suffering artist failing to escape from ambiguity. These dark characters attract no empathy from the reader, and death is seen as the ultimate act of the artist.
A Surprisingly realist narrative from the queen of post-modernism. When read as part of a continuum of Carter's work it is interesting to see the development from realist narrative to magic-realist in later texts.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book provides an interesting description of blokiness gone terribly wrong, in an exciting story based in a seedy world of antique shops and smoky pubs. The author writes brilliantly about men and in particular through her narrator, Morris, and his weak, immoral behaviour, generally influenced by his friend and antihero Honey. I am writing this review after reading about a 100 pages in less than two hours, and so I have to say that the book reads like a dream. There are amazing flurries of metaphors and alliterations, where the author steered just the right side of pretentiousness. There is also a nice level of humour as the reader delights guiltily in Honey's awfulness as well as some erudite cultural references.
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Gorgeous writing and macabre characters proliferate in this novel which is admittedly not to everyone's taste. By Carter using archetypes of fiction to create more fiction, the events and characters come to life vividly in the readers mind. They feel real, these are the people we see from day to day, people we might be wary of. And, as it turns out in most stories these people are the stuff from which our nightmares are created. Recommended.
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My favourite book, had to order another copy as I lent mine out.
My favourite book, had to order another copy as I lent mine out.
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Published on 6 Oct 2009 by Ms. Sarah J. Mcbride
Angela Carter's first book
Carter's first book is an interesting read and I couldn't put it down! It is a story about Morris, Honeybuzzard and Ghislaine set in the Sixties hippie recycling culture, it is... Read more
Published on 29 April 2005 by A. Donovan
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