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Book SynopsisAngela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel,
Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book,
The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
Trade ReviewBlack Venus displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best... 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 *
The "radicalised" Carter tells her tales of terror ferociously, with black brilliance.
Black Venus is shot with dazzling lightning. It is thunderous and magnetic; irresistible even when it seems most repellent * Courrier Mail *
Earthy, bawdy and bizarre in turn, there is a fine intelligence at work here * Daily Telegraph *
She was one of the century's finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Sunday Times *
Angela Carter has language at her fingertips * New Statesman *
