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Love

byAngela Carter, Audrey Niffenegger (Introducer)
Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz.

Their cohabitation produces inescapable, dangerous emotional energy, contained within two rooms. Annabel is a fearful, ethereal artist entirely in her own world. Buzz is a ragged camera-wielding man of sharp intelligence and profound self-absorption. Lee is a simple boy who understands neither his wife nor his brother. He is also having an affair with another woman, a betrayal with the power to warp even further their dark and perverse love triangle...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

'A stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia' Guardian

An excessively stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia..The novel and its afterword form a fascinating study, an erstwhile aesthetic object unravelled into realism and commitment

Guardian

About Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
Details
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • ISBN: 9780099594215
  • Length: 128 pages
  • Dimensions: 196mm x 8mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 97g
  • Price: £9.99
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