The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto

-A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant.- --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review-She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality ... dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.- --Ian McEwan-Carter not only switches her narrative into the wholly explicit but turns the passive predicament of the heroine into one in which the convention of female role-playing seems to have no part, only brisk and derisisve common sense, the best feminine tactic in a tight corner. The tales are retold by Angla Carter with all her supple and intoxicating bravura.- --The New York Review of Books-She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque styleist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.- --Margaret Atwood, The Observer "A wonderfully written book, ironical, cerebral, elegant." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review"She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality ... dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations." --Ian McEwan"Carter not only switches her narrative into the wholly explicit but turns the passive predicament of the heroine into one in which the convention of female role-playing seems to have no part, only brisk and derisisve common sense, the best feminine tactic in a tight corner. The tales are retold by Angla Carter with all her supple and intoxicating bravura." --The New York Review of Books"She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque styleist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity." --Margaret Atwood, The Observer