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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman | Angela Carter
With a new introduction by Ali Smith 'One of the most original, radical and stylish fiction writers of the twentieth century' Independent 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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Cazxxx
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“Everything it is possible to imagine can also exist”

So wonderfully weird!

4 ⭐️

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Bibliobear
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“Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.”

Remembering Angela Carter on her birthday.

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Emilymdxn
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I knew this was going to be surreal, and that turned out to be an understatement. I read it more slowly than I usually read and still feel like there was a lot I didn‘t grasp. The prose was beautiful (as I expect from Angela Carter) but there was also a lot more sexual violence than I was expecting. Gorgeous in places but also brutal and confusing

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kristyliekwhoa
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One of the more unique stories I've read in a long while. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Angela Carter.

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