Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter. 1972 Pocket Books paperback, later printing, 176 pages. almon Rushdie wrote in her New York Times obituary: " repeat: Angela Carter was a great writer. I repeat this because in spite of her worldwide reputation, here in Britain she somehow never quite had her due. Of course, many writers knew that she was that rare thing, a real one-off, nothing like her on the planet; and so did many bewitched, inspired readers. But for some reason she was not placed where she belonged -- at the center of the literature of her time, at the heart. [...] With Angela Carter's death English literature has lost its high sorceress, its benevolent witch-queen, a burlesque artist of genius and antic grace." Heroes was her fourth book, set in a dystopian future. According to a review in the New York Times: ""Heroes and Villains" is a strange, compelling book. Though set in the future, its imagery and references are continually to the art of the past, and usually a past more remote than D. H. Lawrence. "

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"Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her."