Cover art for Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
Published
Virago, September 2016
ISBN
9780349008462
Format
Softcover, 416 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 12.6cm × 2.6cm

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This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. These are subversive tales by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others.

They all have one thing in common; the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

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