Book Review: The Company Of Wolves By Angela Carter

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The Company of Wolves
The Company of Wolves was written by Angela Carter, a legendary English fiction writer. Before Angela could become this greatly renowned Novelist, she had to of had a start in life. She was born in Eastbourne, England on May 7, 1940. Her father was a journalist, and one of her greatest influences in the world of writing. When World War II was at its first break, she was evacuated and sent to live with her maternal grandmother in Yorkshire. During Teenage years, Carter attended Streatham and Clapham High School, where she was ridiculed for her eating disorder, Anorexia Nervosa.
After graduating, she attended the University of Bristol, where she majored in English literature. On all of her travels and expeditions, she also became fluent in French and German. Her first job was at the “Croydon Advertiser”, where she was hired as a journalist. She married her first husband Paul Carter in 1960, and they separated almost a decade later. She used the money she received from the divorce to live in Tokyo for two years. In 1977, she married Mark Pearce and they had a son. She had an untimely death at the age of 51 due to lung cancer on February 16, 1992. Though she is no longer alive, her life was not squandered and her publications live on for her; her legacy.
She published her first novel, “Shadow Dance” in 1966. And only a year later, won a prestigious award for her second novel, “The Magical Toyshop.” She published works such as “The Infernal Desire Machines

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