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Angel (New York Review Books Classics)

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100 Great 20th Century Works of Fiction by Women (103 items)
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Description: Perhaps every novelist harbors a monster at heart, an irrepressible and utterly irresponsible fantasist, not to mention a born and ingenious liar, without which all her art would go for naught. Angel, at any rate, is the story of such a monster. Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother’s grocery shop in a dreary turn-of-the-century English neighborhood, but spends her days dreaming of handsome Paradise House, where her aunt is enthroned as a maid. But in Angel’s imagination, she is the mistress of the house, a realm of lavish opulence, of evening gowns and peacocks. Then she begins to write popular novels, and ... (more)
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 14 February 2012
ISBN-10 : 1590174976 | ISBN-13: 9781590174975
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