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The invention of Angela Carter : the authorised biography by Edmund Gordon; Chatto & Windus is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The invention of Angela Carter : the authorised biography about?
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times , Daily Telegraph , Guardian , Financial Times , Spectator and Observer 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 in London to write her last, great novels, amid the joys of late...
Who reads The invention of Angela Carter : the authorised biography?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edmund Gordon; Chatto & Windus
- Publisher
- imusti; Chatto & Windus
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780701187552
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (146 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14