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Heroes and Villains

Angela Carter
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With a new Introduction by Robert Coover

‘An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy’

The Times

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination.

Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.

‘Angela Carter is a genius’

Victoria Glendinning

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 February 2011
Pages
176
ISBN
9780141192383

With a new Introduction by Robert Coover

‘An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy’

The Times

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination.

Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.

‘Angela Carter is a genius’

Victoria Glendinning

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
3 February 2011
Pages
176
ISBN
9780141192383

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