THE INVENTION OF ANGELA CARTER

Angela Carters life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction. Through her fearlessly original and inventive books, includin g The Bloody Chamber and Nights at the Circus, she became an icon to a generation and one of the most acclaimed English writers of t he last hundred years. This is her first full and authorised biography. Edmund Gordon uncovers Carters life story from a young wo man trying to write in a tiny bedsit in Tokyo, to one of the most important and daring writers of her day. From a life full of adven ture sprang...[Read more]