The Infernal Desire Machines Of Doctor Hoffman

Author: Angela Carter

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Price : 29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780141192390
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
Imprint : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.217
Publication date : December 2010
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Angela Carter
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 288
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Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess. A satirical tale of magic and sex, "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.

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'One of the most original, radical and stylish fiction writers of the twentieth century' Independent She belonged at the centre of the literature of her time -- Salman Rushdie New York Times