The invention of Angela Carter
Subtitle: a biography
By: Edmund Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780190626846
Subjects: Biography; English Authors
Description: "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"--
Notes: Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A matriarchal clan; title: 2. 'States of grace are always evil; title: 3. Flight from a closed room; title: 4. Just a wife; title: 5. A slapstick nightmare; title: 6. Giving the flash more substance; title: 7. Happiness is ego-shaped; title: 8. The edge of the unimaginable; title: 9. Vertigo; title: 10. The dressing-up box of the heart; title: 11. Blueprints for new lifestyles; title: 12. Constructing a personality; title: 13. Yet another foreign country; title: 14. Isn't the identity fragile?; title: 15. The silences with which the English compose intimacies; title: 16. The tales of terror groove; title: 17. No. I lash lady; title: 18. American ghosts; title: 19. A psychedelic Dickens; title: 20. Doomed to love; title: 21. A lifestyle of paradoxical propriety; title: 22. I refuse to play in tragedy; title: 23. Perhaps writing is a matter of life and death; title: 24. Call it a happy ending; title: 25. How sweet it was!; title: Epilogue.