The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
A Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Biography book. A comprehensive and astute biography of Angela Carter, which draws on a range of sources, including her journals, letters,...
Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastic and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as modern and as unconventional as anything in her fiction.Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne in 1940, her story spans the latter half of the twentieth century. After escaping an oppressive childhood and a difficult early marriage, the success of her first novels enable the freedoms of travel – journeying across America in a Greyhound bus, and then on to Tokyo, where she lived for three transformative years – before settling...
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- Pages: 544 pages
- ISBN: 9780701187552 / 701187557
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So thrilled to see a biography of the great Angela Carter had been penned, read it with great interest and enjoyment and sadness. I miss all the stories she might have written this last quarter century, and was tantalised by the story of Adele that was never to be. Good, solid biography. A comprehensive and astute biography of Angela Carter, which draws on a range of sources, including her journals, letters, interviews with her friends, family and professional associates, and travels to many of the places where she spent her life. Of course, it also makes explicit biographical links between her experiences and her (creative)... For anyone with an interest in the life and works of Angela Carter, I recommend this book: interesting, engaging, well-written.
