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Centre stage in Angela Carter''s unruly tale of the Flower
Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel
without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has
abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his
concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effort to
join in the spirit of protest which motivates his contemporaries,
Joseph frees a badger from the local zoo; sends a turd airmail to
the President of the United States; falls in love with the mother
of his best friend; and, accompanied by the strains of an old man''s
violin, celebrates Christmas Eve in a bewildering state of sexual
discovery. But has he found the Meaning of Life?
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One of Britain''s most original writers, Angela Carter
published her first novel, SHADOW DANCE, in 1965. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP
won the 1969 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS the
1968 Somerset Maugham Prize. Carter''s death in 1992 ''robbed the
English literary scene of one of its most vivacious and compelling
voices'' INDEPENDENT.
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