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Incredible and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, once in a while raucous collection of short reviews. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and hesitant muse who never asked to be called the Dark Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's interest, snatching at just a little lifesaving respectability against all possibilities.... Edgar Allen Poe, with his face associated with an actor, demonstrating atlanta divorce attorneys thought and deed how right his friends were when they said, 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast time'. And some of these people are totally imaginary. Like the 17th century whore, transferred to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good girl in spite of herself on the list of Indians, who've nothing well worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, bizarre and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate time for mankind. Angela Carter wonderfully mingles background, fiction, technology, literary criticism, high theatre and low humor in a glorious collection of stories as packed with contradictions and surprises as life itself.
