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Leader LDR cam i 00
Control # 1 hbl99075074
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20220127200004.0
Fixed Data 8 161208s2017 nyua b 001 0beng
LC Card 10    $a 2016042329
ISBN 20    $a9780190626846 (hardback)
Obsolete 39    $a305252$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $ae-uk-en
LC Call 50 00 $aPR6053.A73$bZ682 2017
Dewey Class 82 00 $a823/.914$aB$223
Other Call # 84    $aBIO000000$aBIO007000$2bisacsh
ME:Pers Name 100 $aGordon, Edmund,$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe invention of Angela Carter :$ba biography /$cEdmund Gordon.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2017.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axvii, 525 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $a"With unprecedented access to its subject's personal records and informed by fresh, unvarnished anecdotes from family, friends, and colleagues, Edmund Gordon's biography provides the first full account of Angela Carter's amazing life and enduring work"--$cProvided by publisher.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Content 505 $aMachine 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.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aCarter, Angela,$d1940-1992.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography.