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  Black Venus (Paperback) By (author) Angela Carter

  

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  Short Description for Black VenusA collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance".
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 02 May 1996
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780099480716 ISBN 10: 0099480719
  • Sales rank: 193,184

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Full description for Black Venus

• A collection of short stories: 'BLACK VENUS' displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best. Her fabulous fables all speak for themselves in tones so commanding you feel this must be Baudelaire's mistress, ageing, remembering, still spreading syphilis, or Lizzie Borden restless in the fatal and hot Massachusetts summer. Whatever her subject Miss Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare. And as the voices call out, the images blaze, one is saved from an excess of fantasy by earthy realism, a sudden bark of humour' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH