‘I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.’ So says Angela Carter of Fireworks, written during a period living in Toyko.
These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter’s first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each one instantly conjures an atmosphere, dark and luminous in turn, and from the recognizably daring imagination of one of the great twentieth-century stylists.
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