ANGELA CARTER'S FIRST NOVEL
CARTER, Angela. Shadow Dance. London: Heinemann. 1966.
8vo. Original publisher's grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine, Pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Roger Roberts; pp.[iv], 185, [iii]; Top and bottom of spine lightly pushed, slight mark at the bottom edge of front board and faded at dust jacket spine; otherwise very good.
First edition of Angela Carter's first novel.
Published under the name, "Honeybuzzard" in the United States, Shadow Dance was Angela Carter's first novel.
Upon reading it, Anthony Burgess described Carter as harnessing a unique and fearless magic; "the capacity for looking at the mess of contemporary life totally without flinching".
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