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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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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Angela Carter
- Verlag
- PENGUIN GROUP
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0140235191
- ISBN13
- 9780140235197
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Klassiker, 20. Jahrhundert, Magischer Realismus
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.