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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (Paperback)

by Angela Carter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Classics; New edition edition (3 Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099592916
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099592914
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 156,536 in Books (See Bestsellers 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"


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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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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive collection of Carter's short stories, 7 Jul 2005
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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!

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fairy Tales for a modern world, 26 Jan 2002
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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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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tales requiring an I.D., 6 April 1997
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This review is from: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (Hardcover)
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. These stories are word-dense; keep a dictionary close by. Things are not what they may seem on first reading, or even the second. Not to be missed!
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