The invention of Angela Carter : a biography / Edmund Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Edmund, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carter, Angela, 1940-1992.

Carter, Angela.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction

Chapter One: 'A matriarchal clan'

Chapter Two: 'States of grace are always evil'

Chapter Three: 'Flight from a closed room'

Chapter Four: 'Just a wife'

Chapter Five: 'A slapstick nightmare'

Chapter Six: Giving the flash more substance

Chapter Seven: 'Happiness is ego-shaped'

Chapter Eight: 'The edge of the unimaginable'

Chapter Nine: 'Vertigo'

Chapter Ten: The dressing up box of the heart

Chapter Eleven: Blueprints for new lifestyles

Chapter Twelve: Constructing a personality

Chapter Thirteen: Yet another foreign country

Chapter Fourteen: Isn't the identity fragile?

Chapter Fifteen: The silences with which the English compose intimacies

Chapter Sixteen: The tales of terror groove

Chapter Seventeen: No. 1 lash lady

Chapter Eighteen: American ghosts

Chapter Nineteen: A psychedelic Dickens

Chapter Twenty: Doomed to love

Chapter Twenty-One: A lifestyle of paradoxical propriety

Chapter Twenty-Two: I refuse to play in tragedy

Chapter Twenty-Three: Perhaps writing is a matter of life and death

Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Call it a happy ending'

Chapter Twenty-Five: How sweet it was!

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-062685-2