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Burning your boats : the collected short stories

by Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.

Format: Print Book 1996
Availability: Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy

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Mt. Lebanon Public Library Fiction CARTER Angela
Location  Mt. Lebanon Public Library
 
Collection  Fiction
 
Call Number  CARTER Angela
 
 

Summary
"From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of real-life outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her early work and uncollected stories."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Contents
The man who loved a double bass
A very, very great lady and her son at home
A Victorian fable (with glossary)
A souvenir of Japan
The executioner's beautiful daughter
The loves of Lady Purple
The smile of winter
Penetrating to the heart of the forest
Flesh and the mirror
Master
Reflections
Elegy for a freelance
The bloody chamber
The courtship of Mr. Lyon
The tiger's bride
Puss-in-boots
The Erl-King
The snow child
The lady of the house of love
The werewolf
The company of wolves
Wolf-Alice
Black Venus
The kiss
Our lady of the massacre
The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe
Overture and incidental music for A midsummer night's dream
Peter and the wolf
The kitchen child
The Fall River axe murders
Lizzie's tiger
John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore
Gun for the devil
The merchant of shadows
The ghost ships
In Pantoland
Ashputtle or The mother's ghost
Alice in Prague or The curious room
Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene
The scarlet house
The snow pavilion
The quilt maker.
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "PW called this collection of the late writer's gothic, colorful tales "a generous treat." (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information
Subjects Manners and customs -- Fiction.
Publisher New York :H. Holt and Co.,1996
Edition 1st American ed.
Language English
Notes "A John Macrae book."
"Originally published in Great Britain in 1995 by Chatto & Windus Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Description xiv, 462 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0805044620
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