The Invention of Angela Carter ~ Hardback ~ Edmund Gordon

Widely acknowledged as one of the most important English writers of the last century, Angela Carter's work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastical and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as vigorously modern and unconventional as anything in her fiction. This is the story of how Angela Carter invented herself - as a new kind of woman and a new kind of writer - and how she came to write such seductive and distinctive masterworks as The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children. Edmund Gordon has followed in Angela Carter's footsteps - travelling to the places she lived in Britain, Japan and the USA - to uncover a life rich in adventure and incident. With unrestricted access to her manuscripts, letters and journals, and informed by interviews with Carter's friends and family, this masterful biography offers an unrivalled portrait of one of our most dazzlingly original writers.Author BiographyEdmund Gordon has written for the Guardian, Observer, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement and The Sunday Times, among other publications. In 2012 he received a Jerwood Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London, where he teaches literature and creative writing at King's College, London. This is his first book. The Invention of Angela Carter Release Date Australia: October 13th, 2016