by Angela Carter · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099133711
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«American Ghosts and Old World Wonders» is Angela Carter's collection of short stories, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The stories move through the archives of cinema, art and the subconscious: a young Lizzie Borden visits the circus, a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a Southern brothel and a transfigured Mary Magdalene emerges from the paintings of Donatello and de la Tour, in a collection that weaves together history, identity and fantasy.
The work was originally published in 1993 and the Vintage Classics edition in 1994. ISBN 9780099133711.
For readers of gothic short stories, magical realism and literary fiction, as well as for fans of Angela Carter.
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.
