The invention of Angela Carter : a biography / Edmund Gordon

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press , 2017Description: 525 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780190626846
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 92 CAR 
LOC classification:
  • PR6053.A73 Z682 2017
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue: 'Alienated is the only way to be' -- <strong>PART ONE</strong> -- Chapter One: 'A matriarchal clan' -- Chapter Two: 'States of grace are always evil' -- Chapter Three: 'Flight from a closed room' -- Chapter Four: 'Just a wife' -- Chapter Five: 'A slapstick nightmare' -- Chapter Six: 'Am I a writer?' -- Chapter Seven: 'Happiness is ego-shaped' -- Chapter Eight: 'The edge of the unimaginable' -- Chapter Nine: 'Vertigo' -- <strong>PART TWO</strong> -- Chapter Ten: 'Through the Looking Glass' -- Chapter Eleven: 'The Smile of Winter' -- Chapter Twelve: 'A child's version of a happy city' -- <strong>PART THREE</strong> -- Chapter Thirteen: 'My now stranger's eye' -- Chapter Fourteen: The Sadeian Woman. -- Chapter Fifteen: 'Jurassic productions' -- Chapter Sixteen: The University -- Chapter Seventeen: the London literary world -- Chapter Eighteen: 'Everything is so unreal' -- Chapter Nineteen: Nights at the Circus. -- Chapter Twenty: not feeling anxious' -- Chapter Twenty-One: Sudden Fame -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Age of Thatcher -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Activist -- Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Call it a happy ending' -- Chapter Twenty-Five: 'Farewell performance'.
Summary: With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Prologue: 'Alienated is the only way to be' -- <strong>PART ONE</strong> -- Chapter One: 'A matriarchal clan' -- Chapter Two: 'States of grace are always evil' -- Chapter Three: 'Flight from a closed room' -- Chapter Four: 'Just a wife' -- Chapter Five: 'A slapstick nightmare' -- Chapter Six: 'Am I a writer?' -- Chapter Seven: 'Happiness is ego-shaped' -- Chapter Eight: 'The edge of the unimaginable' -- Chapter Nine: 'Vertigo' -- <strong>PART TWO</strong> -- Chapter Ten: 'Through the Looking Glass' -- Chapter Eleven: 'The Smile of Winter' -- Chapter Twelve: 'A child's version of a happy city' -- <strong>PART THREE</strong> -- Chapter Thirteen: 'My now stranger's eye' -- Chapter Fourteen: The Sadeian Woman. -- Chapter Fifteen: 'Jurassic productions' -- Chapter Sixteen: The University -- Chapter Seventeen: the London literary world -- Chapter Eighteen: 'Everything is so unreal' -- Chapter Nineteen: Nights at the Circus. -- Chapter Twenty: not feeling anxious' -- Chapter Twenty-One: Sudden Fame -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Age of Thatcher -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Activist -- Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Call it a happy ending' -- Chapter Twenty-Five: 'Farewell performance'.

With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work.

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