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Title:
AMERICAN GHOSTS & OLD WORLD WONDERS
By:
Angela Carter
Format:
Paperback
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ISBN 10:
0099133717
ISBN 13:
9780099133711
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Publisher:
VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date:
17 March, 1994
Pages:
160
Description:
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
Synopsis:
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
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Vintage
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