Sub-Rosa is a reading group that meets once a month to discuss feminist and obscure literature.
Our selection for this month is The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter.
We will meet Saturday, October 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the store. A reminder will be sent out the day before the meeting.
If you are interested in attending please send us your email to bookbeatorders@gmail.com.
Books are in stock and discounted 15%.
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother’s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop.
This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
“A magic novel, sexy and eccentric, romantic and tricky.”—The Village Voice Literary Supplement
“Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes—from Lewis Carroll, from ‘Giselle’ and ‘Coppelia, ‘ Harlequin and Punch…It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling.”—The New York Times Book Review
“She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality…dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.”—Ian McEwan
Angela Carter (1940-1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves, based on her story of the same name.
She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London