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    Burning Your Boats

    ted S Stories

    by Angela Carter

    roduction by Salman Rushdie

    One of our most imaginative and accomplisers, Angela Carter left beicism, and fiction. But it is in  stories t raordinary talents -- as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and ales -- are most penetratingly evident. ts Carters considerable legacy of s fiction, gatories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, tales, to stunning snapss of modern life in all its tao c tion of Carters marvelous, magical vision.

    quot;A treasure c of literary and aestic experience. . . mysterious, glamorous, beautiful.quot; -- Carolyn See, ton Post

    quot;Carters ability to probe t places in terious erotic longings and unacknoural.quot; -- the Philadelphia Inquirer

    quot;ion  dazzling of tury.quot; -- Marina arner

    quot;An amazing plum pudding. . . you s miss t; -- Margaret Atoronto Globe amp; Mail