by Angela Carter · SEXTO PISO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788416677528
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Immerse yourself in the literary universe of Angela Carter with 'Burning the ships: The Complete Stories', a comprehensive collection of her stories. This volume brings together all of Carter's story books, including 'Fireworks', 'The Bloody Chamber', 'Black Venus' and 'American Ghosts and Old World Wonders', in addition to her early works and unanthologized stories. Discover a fundamental writer, a virtuoso of prose, intelligent, baroque and imaginative, who weaves gothic stories with a feminist gaze and an exuberant and magical style. With a prologue by Salman Rushdie and translated by Rubén Martín Giráldez.
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
