CARTER, Angela. Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces. London: Quartet Books. 1974.
8vo. Original purple cloth, lettered in silver to spine; original unclipped dust jacket designed by The Green Bay Packers Art Co.; purple endpapers; [6], 121, [1]; very light spotting to page block edges, a touch of pushing to lower spine tip, minimal fading to yellow lettering on jacket spine, a touch of wear to wrapper edges; altogether a sharp, near fine copy in like wrapper.
A bright first edition, first printing of the author's first foray into short fiction.
Fireworks, Carter’s first collection of short fiction, was written between 1970 and 1973, mostly during the period when she was living in Japan (an experience reflected in the stories). In her afterword, Carter remarks that she began writing the pieces while living in a room “too small to write a novel in,” this physical constraint shaping the form the stories took. The collection was reviewed in The Observer by Lorna Sage (18 August 1974), who noted Carter’s departure from conventional realism and identified her as “one of the most rousing young writers around.”
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