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A Card From Angela Carter Hardcover – September 18, 2012
| Susannah Clapp (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.
Angela Carter sent her friend Susannah Clapp postcards from all over the world, missives which form a paper trail through her life. The pictures she chose were sometimes domestic, sometimes flights of fantasy and surrealism. The messages were always pungent.
Here, Susannah Clapp uses postcards – the emails of the twentieth century – to travel through Angela Carter's life, and to evoke her anarchic intelligence, fierce politics, rich language and ribaldry, and the great swoops of her imagination.
- Print length112 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication dateSeptember 18, 2012
- Dimensions4.65 x 0.72 x 7.38 inches
- ISBN-101408826909
- ISBN-13978-1408826904
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Susannah Clapp is the literary executor of Angela Carter and the author of With Chatwin. She helped found the London Review of Books and has worked as a publisher's reader and editor, as radio critic of the Sunday Times and theatre critic of the New Statesman. She has been the theatre critic of the Observer since 1997. Susannah Clapp lives in London.
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- Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing; 1st edition (September 18, 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 112 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1408826909
- ISBN-13 : 978-1408826904
- Item Weight : 5.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.65 x 0.72 x 7.38 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,861,192 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23,830 in Author Biographies
- #147,383 in Memoirs (Books)
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Unfortunately, I did not like the image that this friend of hers described. There was too much focus on how she looked and how she spoke and very little about her, as a person, as an individual. I felt disappointed almost, because in my head I had a completely different version of Carter than what was revealed in this book. And that's what I mean by always putting myself in these situations only to regret it later.
It's happened quite a few times now, where I read biographies of individuals whose work I look up to, only to be severely disappointed by the way they are portrayed in their biographies and it changes the way I see them or think about them forever. I hate that.
No matter how much you try, at the end of the day, you will talk or write about a person they way YOU see them and YOU think about them, and that doesn't necessarily stay true to their character, but we'll never know, will we? because they're already dead. So we end up being stuck with your version of events, and it warps all other versions we had.
That's what happened here. I loved Angela Carter, but after reading this book I felt severely underwhelmed by the character she was described as. I had no idea that she had passed away due to cancer, so that was news to me, and it was nice to see how she dealt with her illness and how she really worked on leaving behind work that would help provide for her husband and son. The constant reference to her shape and size and hair and looks and way of speaking took away so much from the person she actually was. This being a very small book makes it even more critical to focus on more important things than the fact she was "a big woman".
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It is well written.
The problem for me was I was not expecting so slight a book.
I was expecting a memoir type of book and had not realised that it is a very concise book. Whilst nice to hold with a good feel about it there are only about 100 very small pages with the actual cards in black and white so you do not get much sense of what they originally looked like or their time period as a result. I can see that the point is to keep it all brief in keeping with the concept and style idea of the book.
So I think I will have to do a little more actual reading of the work of the author she is talking about and then come back to it. If you already know a lot about Angela Carter then you will probably make a better connection than I did as a lot is assumed and I needed a bit more information in places. However this probably reflects my own current lack of knowledge about the details rather than a failing on the books part. Perhaps part of its purpose is to stimulate you to find out more about Angela Carter and her writing which it has certainly done.
Just a shame the reproduced postcards are of very poor quality, black-and-white rather than colour.
The publishers should have done a better job on what could be a true gem of a wee book!

