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The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter

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The Bloody Chamber

HarperCollins (1979)
0060107081
| Hardcover
English
€ 5.00 | Value: € 37.96
Dewey 823.914
LC Classification PR6053.A73 .B5 1979
LC Control No. 79002645

Genre

  • Fiction
  • Short Stories

Subject

  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
  • Literary Criticism / General

Plot

Familiar tales retold with a dark gothic twist, each tempered with a saucy wit and the ability to impart new meaning onto old standards. Heroines are erotic, independent and canny, and their victories contain a bite, an edge that places these tales outside the traditional happy ending. Stories are beautifully overblown and hyperreal, with a sly, subtle humour that tempers even the darkest tale. This world is very female, where the instigators of action and solvers of perilous events are mothers, daughters, wives and wild girls.