# Fireworks

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- Book: [Fireworks](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-carter/fireworks) ([Fireworks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-carter/fireworks.md))
- Authors: [Angela Carter](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-carter)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-298-4
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2017-10-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.’ So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter’s first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each one instantly conjures an atmosphere, dark and luminous in turn, and from the recognisably daring imagination of one of the great twentieth-century stylists.