The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman de Angela Carter

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman: Penguin Modern Classics

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2011

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.

A satirical tale of magic and sex,The Infernal Desire Machinesof Doctor Hoffmanis a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141192390
ISBN-10: 0141192399
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Angela Carter was born in 1940 of a Scottish father and Yorkshire mother. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magic realism. She died in 1992.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author ofFree Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets BoyandThe First Person and Other Stories.

Recenzii

'One of the most original, radical and stylish fiction writers of the twentieth century'
She belonged at the centre of the literature of her time

Cuprins

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Introduction
1. The City Under Siege
2. The Mansion of Midnight
3. The River People
4. The Acrobats of Desire
5. The Erotic Traveller
6. The Coast of Africa
7. Lost in Nebulous Time
8. The Castle

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