{"product_id":"saints-and-strangers-king-penguin","title":"Saints and Strangers (King Penguin)","description":"\"An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories…A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction.\" -- The New York Times Book Review\n\nDrawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories.\n\nLizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity. Carter immerses us in the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, of khans, princesses, and kitchen boys, bringing them to life in prose of seductive richness and perverse wit.\n\nIn The Bloody Chamber, said The New York Times Book Review, Carter rewrote classic fairy tales \"with all her supple and intoxicating bravura.\" In Saints and Strangers, she is just as audacious, and the result is a book of thoroughly contemporary folk tales that belong utterly to Angela Carter.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 014008973X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.014008973X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Carter, Angela\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43334644629565,"sku":"BVV.014008973X.A","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/014008973X-0.jpg?v=1783697745","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/saints-and-strangers-king-penguin","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}