# The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

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- Authors: [Angela Carter](https://www.bookquiver.com/angela-carter)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-239-0
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.