Expletives deleted

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Angela Carter: Expletives deleted (Paperback, 1993, Vintage)

Paperback, 224 pages

English language

Published Oct. 19, 1993 by Vintage.

ISBN:
978-0-09-922281-1
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OCLC Number:
28181175

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4 stars (2 reviews)

Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David; British writing: American writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset; and appreciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.

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3 stars

I grabbed Expletives Deleted from a book exchange on spotting Angela Carter's name on the cover, without particularly taking note of what this book was about. I had a vague idea it would be short stories and so, having loved her novel Wise Children, was keen to read more of her work. On getting around to read Expletives Deleted however, I discovered that it is actually a collection of nonfiction writings, starting with a section of extended book reviews of books that I haven't yet read - and probably won't ever read - so I initially found myself struggling to keep an interest. The book was probably intended as a dip-into collection, one or two essays to be read at a time, and I certainly did enjoy the pieces where I felt some connection to the subject - a review of J G Ballard's career upon the publication of Empire …

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  • Literature -- History and criticism