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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
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Angela Carter takes the old fairy tales — Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, the vampire bride — and rewrites them as lush, dangerous adult fictions. A young pianist is married to a connoisseur with a locked room; a girl bargains with a tiger; a countess haunts a rose garden; wolves speak with human need. The settings are gorgeously realised, from Parisian salons to snowbound Carpathian forests, and the prose is sensual, witty and knife-sharp. Each story is short enough for one sitting yet lingers for years, exploring desire, power and appetite with a feminist intelligence that never lectures.
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