Fireworks: Nine Stories In Various Disguises
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Britain's most singular and audacious literary voices comes Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises, a collection of short fiction that crackles with dark imagination and subversive wit. Angela Carter presents nine meticulously crafted tales that inhabit a world suspended between the mundane and the grotesque, where desire, violence, and transformation collide in settings drawn from carnival sideshows, decaying mansions, and labyrinthine foreign cities — most notably a dreamlike, stylised Japan that Carter knew from her own time living there in the early 1970s. A master of the literary fantastic, Carter wields fairy-tale archetypes and Gothic imagery as precision instruments, dismantling the myths that structure gender, power, and sexuality. Her prose is dense with sensory detail and darkly baroque ornamentation, each story functioning as both a complete world and a provocation, daring the reader to look closer at what lies beneath the glittering surface. For those who have yet to encounter Carter's extraordinary imaginative universe, Fireworks is the perfect ignition point — and for those already devoted, it remains a testament to why her flame burns so enduringly bright.
Author: Angela Carter
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From one of Britain's most singular and audacious literary voices comes Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises, a collection of short fiction that crackles with dark imagination and subversive wit. Angela Carter presents nine meticulously crafted tales that inhabit a world suspended between the mundane and the grotesque, where desire, violence, and transformation collide in settings drawn from carnival sideshows, decaying mansions, and labyrinthine foreign cities — most notably a dreamlike, stylised Japan that Carter knew from her own time living there in the early 1970s. A master of the literary fantastic, Carter wields fairy-tale archetypes and Gothic imagery as precision instruments, dismantling the myths that structure gender, power, and sexuality. Her prose is dense with sensory detail and darkly baroque ornamentation, each story functioning as both a complete world and a provocation, daring the reader to look closer at what lies beneath the glittering surface. For those who have yet to encounter Carter's extraordinary imaginative universe, Fireworks is the perfect ignition point — and for those already devoted, it remains a testament to why her flame burns so enduringly bright.