Burning your boats the collected short stories
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
H. Holt and Co.,
1996.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| Item Description: | "A John Macrae book." |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 462 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0805044620 (acid-free paper) |
| Author Notes: | Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). (Bowker Author Biography) |
