Shadow Dance

Shadow Dance

by Angela Carter

3.00 out of 5 (2 ratings)

Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
192 
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group 
Publication Date:
03 May 1995 
Category:
Modern & Contemporary 
ISBN:
9781860490415 

Description

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man, Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale. 'In a modern day horror story gleaming with perfect 1960's detail, she performs a double act, conjuring up just the right amount of unease and perversion beneath the idiosyncratic business of relatively ordinary lives' THE TIMES

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  • This is an excellent first novel from one of my favorite authors. Deliciously dark, it hooked me right from the beginning. Though it ended too soon, I thoroughly enjoyed the read.

    4.00 out of 5

    thioviolight

  • Disturbing tale of obsession, violence, and badlove. Central to all, the amoral charismatic Honeybuzzard, and his shadow Morris, an unfulfilled unhappy man who is not bad at heart, but who cannot tear himself away from the orbit of Honeybuzzard. [Nov 2004]

    2.00 out of 5

    scarletslippers

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