TY - ABST T1 - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Y1 - 1972 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia in which a man destabilizes reality, thus producing many fantastic events. Much violence including violent sex. The novel describes one man's successful attempt to find the source of the problem and defeat it. In the course of his search, he comes across a number of small societies, all of them ultimately dystopian.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

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U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams

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