A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp

A Card from Angela Carter

by Susannah Clapp

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
First edition
ISBN 9781408826904
Black and white illustrations, illustrated endpapers
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, stamps to back endpapers.  Dustjacket very good in Mylar protective sleeve, attached to inside covers (see photographs)

“Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century: much studied, copied and adored.  When she died at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from the shortlists of any Booker Prize led to the foundation of the range Prize.  Twenty years after her death, no biographical work has appeared.
Susannah Clapp and Angela Carter were friends for a number of years.  The postcards that Carter sent form a paper trail through her life.  The pictures were sometimes domestic, sometimes flights of fantasy and surrealism.  The messages were always pungent.  From Stratford, Ontario, she explained skirmish in the London Review of Books where Susannah then worked, she sent a terrifying picture of Texan chilli, with the message: ‘Carter’s reply to the critics… goes through you like a dose of salts… I’d liked to feed it to that drivelling wimp…”