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From reflections on jazz and Japan through vigorous refashionings of classic fairy tales to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, "Burning Your Boats" charts the evolution of Angela Carter's marvelous magic vision in a volume that assembles her considerable legacy of short fiction, including early and previously unpublished stories.

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安吉拉•卡特

1940-1992

英国著名女作家,著有长篇小说和短篇小说多部,作品以幻想题材为主,糅合魔幻现实主义、女性主义、哥特风格和寓言色彩于一体,戏仿童话,重塑传奇,想象奇诡,语言瑰丽,于世界文坛独树一帜。她曾于1969年获毛姆奖,1983年担任布克奖评委。《时代》周刊将其誉为二十世纪最杰出的作家之一。《焚舟纪》是其短篇小说全集。