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Title: ANGELA CARTER'S BOOK OF WAYWARD GIRLS AND WICKED WOMEN
By: Angela Carter
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0349008469
ISBN 13: 9780349008462
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 7 July, 2016
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 416
Description: * This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Synopsis: This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all womenReflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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