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Genre/Form: | Science fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Angela Carter |
ISBN: | 9780140235197 0140235191 |
OCLC Number: | 31035570 |
Notes: | "First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1972; first published in the United States of America under the title The war of dreams by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973"--Title page verso. |
Description: | 220 pages ; 20 cm |
Other Titles: | War of dreams |
Responsibility: | Angela Carter. |
Abstract:
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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Boring and pretentious drivel. I tried three times to read this to the end : I only ever managed to struggle to the half-way point, approximately.
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