Black Venus
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Black Venus
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Narrated by:
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Clare Corbett
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Toby Longworth
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By:
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Angela Carter
About this listen
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds....
Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of an actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said, 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast'. And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the 17th century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity.
Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
©1985 Angela Carter (P)2018 Audible, LtdWhat listeners say about Black Venus
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Louise Angrilli
- 29-08-2020
I’d read an Angela Carter shopping list
Four hours is really just a tiny morsel of a book, but anything Angela Carter is always exquisitely packed.
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