Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories Angela Carter ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page: 373
ISBN: 0140255281, 9780140255287

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, Angela Carter's last short story collection published posthumously after her death from lung cancer in 1992, is a collection of two halves. Angela Carter, whose collection of short stories (Burning Your Boats, 1995) I will be studying as part of a modern British literature course this fall. Swelling bosom of a nursing mother and your cold head, your cold head. I knew of her, primarily of Burning Your Boats. James Joyce, Günter Grass, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Lewis Carroll. Burning Your Boats is the complete short stories, and contains a good deal of Carter's finest work. Tags: American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, angela carter. After reading one short story – The Lady of the House Of Love, an excellent gothic piece – I bought the book, went home and immersed myself under a blanket whilst I went further into Carter's world of magical realism and picaresque fantasy. One way to light your fire, and challenge your most brilliant self, is to “Burn Your Boats” ~. Highly recommended and if you buy Burning Your Boats, you will get this collection as well as all the other ones that I have discussed. The short post which follows, originally appeared on my Say “Alaka'i” column for the Honolulu Advertiser in October of 2009. I still remember walking around my favourite Dublin bookshop and finding a little alcove under A-C and there I found Burning Your Boats, a collection of short fiction by Carter.