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|title=Burning Your Boats

|author=Angela Carter

|publisher=Vintage Books

|date=July 2006

|summary=Angela Carter's exotic short stories, previously published in four separate volumes, are presented here as a single collection. The tales are prefaced with a revealing introduction by Salman Rushdie, who was a friend of the author.

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''Burning your Boats'' brings together Carter's early works and her uncollected short stories, alongside the collections ''Fireworks'', ''The Bloody Chamber'', ''Black Venus'' and ''American Ghosts''. Carter's ability to take the everyday and transform it into the fantastic is evident in stories that range from a cautionary tale of a musician in love with his instrument to a lost motorist whose journey ends in nightmarish circumstances in the Snow Pavilion.