Description

Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz.

Their cohabitation produces inescapable, dangerous emotional energy, contained within two rooms. Annabel is a fearful, ethereal artist entirely in her own world. Buzz is a ragged camera-wielding man of sharp intelligence and profound self-absorption. Lee is a simple boy who understands neither his wife nor his brother. He is also having an affair with another woman, a betrayal with the power to warp even further their dark and perverse love triangle…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

‘A stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia’ Guardian

Publisher Review

An excessively stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia..The novel and its afterword form a fascinating study, an erstwhile aesthetic object unravelled into realism and commitment * Guardian * Carter observes her characters with a cool detachment as if they were specimens on a slide..She catches acutely the dying throes of the love generation, when Swinging London had run to seed * New Society * Angela Carter has language at her fingertips * New Statesman * Whatever her subject, Angela Carter writes like a dream - sometimes a nightmare * Sunday Telegraph *