Shaking A Leg - Couverture rigide

Carter, Angela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701163364 ISBN 13 : 9780701163365

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1997

Synopsis

Angela Carter's journalism was always acutely observant and brilliantly entertaining. This volume follows her track from the 1960s onwards as she explores new territories and overturns old ideas discussing films or food, feminism or fantasy, jeans or Japan, science fiction or sex, Virginia Woolf baking bread or Bob Dylan making hay. Her ironic delight in the spirit of place - hot springs and derelict boozers in Bath, curd tarts and pigeons in Manchester -is only on aspect of her tart delight in contrasts of culture, like the 'disparate ethnic elements in British food, or the queasy class shame in the novels of D. H. Lawrence. SHAKING A LEG contains much hitherto uncollected material garnered from a wide range of sources- from student magazines to the NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY, from NOVA and VOGUE to the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. Carter can be down-to-earth or devastatingly funny, but her style illuminates her subject and never swamps it. This is an exuberant, fierce, dazzling collection, memorable and enjoyable at once.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author’s fiction. Angela Carter is revealed here, anew, as one of the most important thinkers of twentieth-century world literature—and one of its most pungent voices.”—Rick Moody
 
One of contemporary literature’s most original and affecting fiction writers, Angela Carter also wrote brilliant nonfiction. Shaking a Leg comprises the best of her essays and criticism, much of it collected for the first time. Carter’s acute observations are spiked with her piercing matter-of-factness, her devastating wit, her penchant for mockery, and her passion for the absurd. Whether discussing films or food, feminism or fantasy, science fiction or sex, Carter consistently explores new territories and overturns old ideas. No cultural icon escapes her scrutiny; as in her fiction, Carter offers glorious evidence of the transforming power of the imagination. From delightfully wicked commentaries on Gone with the Wind, a Japanese fertility festival, and fellow writers, including Lawrence, Lovecraft, Borges, and Burroughs, to enchanting personal essays, Carter shares her thoughts and herself with glee.
 
“What a wonderful collection—sharp, funny, too decent for sarcasm but great wit and humanity, an unusual combination. But it makes us miss her, miss laughing with her, that real, intelligent, tough writing woman.”—Grace Paley

Revue de presse

"Shaking a Leg reveals a stunning range of interests that marks her out not just as one of our greatest novelists and short story writers but as one of our best literary and cultural critics... If you would like better to understand the workings of the second half of our century, then this is the book" (Ali Smith Scotsman)

"Reading Shaking a Leg is like sitting down with a friend who is clever, funny, outrageous, compassionate, anecdotal and sociologically aware; someone with a great memory and a quirky, associative train of thought; someone who can make you laugh and say "yes" out loud before you turn the page to devour her next paragraph, whether it be about Hollywood or Venice, her dotty parents or her favourite writers. Carter is endlessly entertaining, endearing and down-to-earth in this admirably comprehensive collection" (Irish Times)

"It is her journalism, collected in the 1997 volume 'Shaking a Leg', to which I find myself returning again and again, struck freshly by its forthrightness, its imagination, its unpredictability - and by the sheer range of subjects on which she was fluent" (Susannah Clapp Guardian)

"The range of her interests is quite dazzling. She is the voice of an entire generation" (Washington Post)

"Shocking, willful, extravagant - every cut and quip at the same time reveals a striking intellectual acuity" (New York Times)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701163364
• ISBN 13: 9780701163365
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 656
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible