Description: From reflections on jazz and Japan through vigorous refashionings of classic fairy tales to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, "Burning Your Boats" charts the evolution of Angela Carter's marvelous magic vision in a volume that assembles her considerable legacy of short fiction, including early and previously unpublished stories.
Review Quotes: "Carter's world is strange, dangerous, and beautiful."
--Alison Lurie, The New York Times Book Review
"A treasure chest of literary and aesthetic experience ... mysterious, glamorous, beautiful."
--Carolyn See, The Washington Post
"Carter's ability to probe the secret places in the human psyche, where mysterious erotic longings and unacknowledged links with the unearthly lie buried, verges on the supernatural."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Her imagination was one of the most dazzling of this century."
--Marina Warner
"An amazing plum pudding ... you should not miss this book."
--Margaret Atwood, Toronto Globe & Mail