One of this author's characters says sleeping with his wife was "like reading Samuel Beckett on an empty stomach." That novel, Love, was followed by a novel about Desiderio, who is out to kill the title character who is employing the titular device powered by 50 copulating couples to wage war, called The Infernal Desire Mac
One of this author's characters says sleeping with his wife was "like reading Samuel Beckett on an empty stomach." That novel, Love, was followed by a novel about Desiderio, who is out to kill the title character who is employing the titular device powered by 50 copulating couples to wage war, called The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman. Black Venus is a fictionalization of Lizzie Borden and Baudelaire's syphilitic mistress. Her last novel tells of the title twin girls who are the illegitimate daughters of a Shakespearean actor. For 10 points, name this English feminist science fiction and magical realist author of Wise Children and Nights at the Circus.
One of this author's characters says sleeping with his wife was "like reading Samuel Beckett on an empty stomach."
Angela Carter