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Review: April Bernard on Angela Carter

Ann Kjellberg
Nov 15, 2018
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Detail: Cover image by James Marsh for Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber

Revisiting the writing of this old friend—I mean literarily, but not literally because alas I never met Angela Carter—I am struck by how wildly various this wild writer can be. And also by how close she comes, in her best work, to the very edge of what the reader can bear; and how …

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