Author:
Gordon, Edmund, author.
ImprintNew York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Descriptionxvii, 525 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note:Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Chapter One: 'A matriarchal clan' -- Chapter Two: 'States of grace are always evil' -- Chapter Three: 'Flight from a closed room' -- Chapter Four: 'Just a wife' -- Chapter Five: 'A slapstick nightmare' -- Chapter Six: Giving the flash more substance -- Chapter Seven: 'Happiness is ego-shaped' -- Chapter Eight: 'The edge of the unimaginable' -- Chapter Nine: 'Vertigo' -- Chapter Ten: The dressing up box of the heart -- Chapter Eleven: Blueprints for new lifestyles -- Chapter Twelve: Constructing a personality-- Chapter Thirteen: Yet another foreign country -- Chapter Fourteen: Isn't the identity fragile? -- Chapter Fifteen: The silences with which the English compose intimacies -- Chapter Sixteen: The tales of terror groove -- Chapter Seventeen: No. 1 lash lady -- Chapter Eighteen: American ghosts -- Chapter Nineteen: A psychedelic Dickens -- Chapter Twenty: Doomed to love -- Chapter Twenty-One: A lifestyle of paradoxical propriety -- Chapter Twenty-Two: I refuse to play in tragedy -- Chapter Twenty-Three: Perhaps writing is a matter of life and death -- Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Call it a happy ending' -- Chapter Twenty-Five: How sweet it was! -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work"-- Provided by publisher.
