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The Bloody Chamber
by CARTER, Angela
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Row, 1979. First American edition. 164pp. Blue cloth-backed boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Light bump to top rear corner; light foxing to textblock top and fore-edge. Jacket price-clipped, with a shallow chip to head of front panel, light toning to interior. Very good in like jacket.
First printing of Carter's classic collection of short fiction, in which she attempted to "extract the latent content" from well-known fairytales like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Little Red Riding Hood," with dark, sensual and frequently violent results.
Synopsis
From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Reviews
Angela Carter (1940-1992), recipient of the W. Somerset Maughm Award, leaves us with a modern day classic vined around 19th century classics. She takes fairy and folk tales that were their own just-below-the-suface erotic, and recasts them as openly darkening adult erotica. At the hands of a masterful mistress such as Ms. Carter, the likes of, Little Red Riding Hood; Puss and Boots; Beauty and the Beast, and more, are shaped and sharpened to challenge the mind and stir the loins. This is a timeless wonderment for the fan and collector of adult erotica from a talent we may not see the likes of again. This was Angela Carter's 10th work.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002610
- Title
- The Bloody Chamber
- Author
- CARTER, Angela
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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