![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first, ''A Souvenir of Japan,'' two lovers,Īn Englishwoman and a young Japanese man, attend a traditional fireworks show. The waves leave torn, translucentįurls of polythene wrapping too tough for even this sea's iron stomach.''Įspecially remarkable among the realistic stories are three set in Japan, where Carter lived in her early 30's, working at many different jobs: at one time, she was a bar hostess. Ordinary and even sordid things are transfigured by the intensity of her vision: ''The beach is full of the garbage of the ocean. Fortunately, they have been reprinted in ''Burning Your Boats,'' together with six previouslyĮven in the realistic stories, Carter's world is strange, dangerous and beautiful. ![]() During her lifetime, she published four volumes of stories, some of which are now almost impossible to find. Such surprises and reversals are everywhere in the stories of Angela Carter, the fine English writer who died in 1992 ''at the height of her powers,'' as her friend Salman Rushdie says in his introduction to this new collection of My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders I shrugged the drops off ''Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shiny hairs. Instead, Beauty is transformed into a tigress by his passionate kisses: N ''The Tiger's Bride,'' Angela Carter's haunting version of ''Beauty and the Beast,'' the heroĭoes not become a handsome prince. ![]()
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