TY - ABST T1 - The Passion of New Eve Y1 - 1977 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.

JF - Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces PB - Quartet Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.

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ER - 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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heroes and Villains Y1 - 1969 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix). 

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