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Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women Author:Angela Carter This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales ? by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others ? all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolution... more »aries to their rightful position as models for all women Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.« less