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Sarah Waters: ‘Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber was like nothing I’d read before’

December 1, 2018 by Webmaster

The author on discovering Carter’s fairytales as a teenager…

from The Guardian

The book that changed my life 
Angela Carter’s collection of rewritten fairytales, The Bloody Chamber. I read it when I was 17, and its mix of feminism, sex and literary fireworks – the sheer lusciousness of it – was like nothing I’d ever encountered before.

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