CARTER, Angela.

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Fireworks. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Edward, with love from Angela", and with further inscriptions on the title page and page 61 quoting Baudelaire and Tristan Tzara. The recipient was her close friend, the left-wing economist Edward Horesh.Carter and Horesh were introduced in the 1960s by Carter's first husband. Horesh, "gangly, bespectacled, and highly cerebral" (Gordon, p. 102), delighted in arguments for their own sake, and often played the devil's advocate. "Angela was fascinated and somewhat awed by him. 'His ability for abstract thought both chills and impresses me', she wrote. 'Chills more than impresses. To talk cooly about corporal punishment is to forget the lash of the whip on the shoulders'" (Gordon, p. 102). Despite her misgivings, Horesh "was her intellectual match in a way that very few of her university or Clifton friends were, and she enjoyed talking to him... they became increasingly friendly, and by the beginning of 1967 they were doing the weekly shop together at Sainsbury's on Wednesday evenings" (Gordon, p. 102). Carter quotes twice from Baudelaire's posthumously published collection "Fusées" ("Rockets") in the original French: "Fireworks, fires, incendiaries' Baudelaire (who else)" and "1) Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. 'Fusées', Baudelaire" (our translations). She later quotes Tzara's Dada Manifesto (1918) at the beginning of the short story "Flesh and the Mirror": "'Tous ce

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