Virago, No date. Medium Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Medium Trade Paperback. 339 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Virago, No date. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. First 2 pages have been removed.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as role models for all women. Elizabeth Jolley celebrates that rare phenomenon, the female confidence trickster and in Leonora Carrington's beautifully surreal tale, a hyena is persuaded by a debutante to take her place at the ball - and go dressed to kill. 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN: 0860685799. ISBN/EAN: 9780860685791. Inventory No: 20111036.. 9780860685791

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In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not victims. None of them suffers passively at the hands of men. Each manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them.

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Seller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Seller's Inventory #: 20111036
Title: Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Author: Angela Carter
Format/Binding: Medium Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good (ex-library)
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0860685799
ISBN 13: 9780860685791
Publisher: Virago
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: No date
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
Bookseller catalogs: Romance & Women's Fiction; Fiction;

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