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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192390

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.

A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141192390

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £9.99

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  • 'One of the most original, radical and stylish fiction writers of the twentieth century'

    Independent

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About the Author

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992

Angela Carter

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