Burning Your Boats : : the Collected Short Stories

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Call Number: Fiction / Carter, Angela, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Carter, Angela
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Carter, Angela	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Carter, Angela	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"A John Macrae book."
The man who loved a double bass -- A very, very great lady and her son at home -- A Victorian fable (with glossary) -- A souvenir of Japan -- The executioner's beautiful daughter -- The loves of Lady Purple -- The smile of winter -- Penetrating to the heart of the forest -- Flesh and the mirror -- Master -- Reflections -- Elegy for a freelance -- The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the house of love -- The werewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice -- Black Venus -- The kiss -- Our lady of the massacre -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe -- Overture and incidental music for A midsummer night's dream -- Peter and the wolf -- The kitchen child -- The Fall River axe murders -- Lizzie's tiger -- John Ford's 'Tis pity she's a whore -- Gun for the devil -- The merchant of shadows -- The ghost ships -- In Pantoland -- Ashputtle or The mother's ghost -- Alice in Prague or The curious room -- Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene -- The scarlet house -- The snow pavilion -- The quilt maker.
Forty-two stories. In The Bloody Chamber, a bride discovers she married a sadist, The Quilt Maker is on aging, and Our Lady of the Massacres is on the destruction of Indians.

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burning your boats submitted by qmomo on June 27, 2019, 10:25pm this wonderful volume brings together all of angela carter's short story collections and some previously uncollected stories with a forward by salman rushdie. although i love her novels i think angela carter is at her best in short story form (rushdie expresses a similar opinion in his forward). some are like a dazzling series of variations on a theme - in "the bloody chamber" fairy tales are reimagined from a variety of angles and used to examine ideas and fears about relationships, love, desire, violence - in "american ghosts & old world wonders" figures from edgar allan poe to lizzie borden are the basis for strange tableaux of a sort of gothic american mythology. there's a boldness and gusto to carter's writing and an inquisitive, probing spirit, an eagerness to ask questions, dethrone idols, turn ideas inside out, that remains sorely needed today.