# Saints and Strangers

**Angela Carter**

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“An absolutely unique voice...It would be an impertinence to call these eight delightful concoctions stories…A virtuoso Mendelssohn of fiction.” — _The New York Times Book Review_

**Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories.** Lizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity.

Carter immerses us in the worlds of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, of khans, princesses, and kitchen boys, bringing them to life in prose of seductive richness and perverse wit. In _The Bloody Chamber_, said _The New York Times Book Review_, Carter rewrote classic fairy tales “with all her supple and intoxicating bravura.” In _Saints and Strangers_, she is just as audacious, and the result is a book of thoroughly contemporary folk tales that belong utterly to Angela Carter.