{"product_id":"black-venus","title":"Black Venus","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carter, Angela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e New Ed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 04-06-1996\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099480716\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nExtraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast.'\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the seventeenth century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\nAngela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nBlack Venus displays the superbly witchy Angela Carter at her best... Whatever her subject Miss Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare. And as the voices call out, the images blaze, one is saved from an excess of fantasy by earthy realism, a sudden bark of humour,\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe \"radicalised\" Carter tells her tales of terror ferociously, with black brilliance.\u003cbr\u003e\n Black Venus is shot with dazzling lightning. It is thunderous and magnetic; irresistible even when it seems most repellent,\u003cbr\u003e\nCourrier Mail\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEarthy, bawdy and bizarre in turn, there is a fine intelligence at work here,\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nShe was one of the century's finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett,\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAngela Carter has language at her fingertips,\u003cbr\u003e\nNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nAngela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nShadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099480716\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49114528809264,"sku":"Prakash_9780099480716","price":440.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/vintage-classics-book-default-title-black-venus-38854029050160.jpg?v=1753014361","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/black-venus","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}