Shadow Dance (Paperback, Reissue)

Carter's disturbing debut still has the power to chill. Ghislaine, formerly beautiful and promiscuous, has been disfigured by a terrible knife wound. The perpetrator, Honeybuzzard is unmoved whilst his sidekick, Morris is consumed by fearful guilt. As the men's friendship disintegrates, Carter lays bare the perversion behind ordinary lives. As ever, she pins her characters down with rapier precision: Morris is a brittle fool, Honeybuzzard genuinely horrifying, and Ghislaine is the wrecked princess. Carter's visceral prose style is unsettling: as a pioneer of magic realism, she opens disconcerting windows onto the macabre. The novel's evocation of 1960s England has been proved faultless: Carter exposes the misogyny and viciousness which feasted upon the sexual revolution. She is as concerned with male collusion as she is with female stoicism. Carter gives us an inverted, sickly fairy story which cannot end well. Shadow Dance is an uncomfortable, highly original read. (Kirkus UK)

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man, Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale. 'In a modern day horror story gleaming with perfect 1960's detail, she performs a double act, conjuring up just the right amount of unease and perversion beneath the idiosyncratic business of relatively ordinary lives' THE TIMES

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Virago Modern Classics
Release date:	May 1995
Authors:	Angela Carter
Dimensions:	202 x 128 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	192
Edition:	Reissue
ISBN-13:	978-1-86049-041-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-86049-041-7
Barcode:	9781860490415

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