Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women by Carter, Angela

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Author: Carter, Angela Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 7 July 2016 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vira go Modern Classics' series.Paperback | 416 pages197 x 127 x 27 | 324g This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice. Show more