OCTOBER BOOK
Our selection for October is the short story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (wikilink) by English writer Angela Carter. We're back to our regular second Tuesday rotation, so that's Oct 13 at our usual Zawa's location (link) and start time (7pm). All bibliophiles are welcome to join the usual suspects for palaver and potables.
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.
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