The Invention Of Angela Carter Av Edmund Gordon

<p>WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD <br><br>NBCC AWARD FINALIST <br><br>WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE <br><b><br>Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in <i>The </i><i>Sunday Times</i>, <i>Daily Telegraph</i>, <i>Guardian</i>, <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Spectator</i> and <i>Observer</i><br></b><br>Angela Carter¿s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction. Through her fearlessly original and inventive books, including <i>The Bloody Chamber</i> and <i>Nights at the Circus</i>, she became an icon to a generation and one of the most acclaimed English writers of the last hundred years. This is her first full and authorised biography. <br><br>Edmund Gordon uncovers Carter¿s life story ¿ from a young woman 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 adventure sprang work so fantastic, dazzling and seductive that it permanently changed and reinvigorated British literature