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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most impor
tant 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 he
rself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of s
ubjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers G
rimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizbaeth David; British writing: America
n writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset; and app
reciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.