Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Author(s): Angela Carter
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This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women
Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
General Information
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- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.324
- : 01 July 2016
- : 198mm X 135mm X 28mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 September 2016
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Angela Carter
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 823/.01/08352042
- : 416
More About The Product
One of Britain's most original writers, Angela Carter was highly lauded for her novels, short stories and journalism. She died in February 1992.