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  • Published: 3 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141399652
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

  • Angela Carter



One of two strange and compelling Angela Carter novels, new to Penguin Modern Classics

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.

  • Published: 3 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141399652
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288