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Angela Carter\u2019s travels in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the U.S., Angela Carter was astonished to find so much advertising for burgers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Edmund Gordon will discuss his book\u00a0<\/em>The Invention of Angela Carter<\/a>, from which the below is excerpted, tonight at McNally Jackson with Christian Lorentzen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Angela Carter and her husband, Paul, flew to New York on July 29, 1969. They arrived in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots, when the city was fractious and twitchy in the midsummer heat. A few weeks earlier, the first American troops had withdrawn from Vietnam (an outcome\u00a0Angela thought was \u201cin human terms \u2026 the single most glorious event since the abolition of slavery\u201d), but in August the headlines were dominated by gun battles between Black Panthers and police, the bombing of the Marine Midland building on Broadway by a radical left-wing activist, and the gruesome murders perpetrated by the Manson family in Los Angeles and the Zodiac Killer in San Francisco. Angela felt that the status quo \u201ccouldn\u2019t hold on much longer. The war had been brought home.\u201d She found Manhattan \u201ca very, very strange and disturbing and unpleasant and violent and terrifying place \u2026 The number of people who offered to do me violence was extraordinary.\u201d The trip was the basis for the Expressionist portrait of New York in her novel The Passion of New Eve\u2014<\/em>it\u2019s depicted as a society in the last stages of moral and economic collapse\u2014which she described as \u201conly a very slightly exaggerated picture, not of how it was in New York but of how it felt that summer.\u201d She met one of the models for Tristessa\u2014the novel\u2019s transvestite leading lady\u2014in Max\u2019s Kansas City, the legendary nightclub in the East Village where the house band was the Velvet Underground,and the clientele was composed largely of artists, writers and musicians, including such luminaries as Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, and Patti Smith.<\/p>\n

Angela and Paul spent three days in the city before traveling by Greyhound bus through Connecticut, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Angela wrote to her friend Carole Roffe:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Riding the buses is weird, since one sees only the Other America\u2014the poor people, spades, Mexies, mountain men & European tourists. Everyone else is in a car or plane. Eating at bus station cafes in strange dawns, each station identifiable only by the differing postcards in the stand & the sugar lollipops labelled A Present from Knoxville \u2026 Or Phoenix or Memphis depending on the town. Black girls twisting their hair into spikes & applying the de-kinking fluid as the bus roars at 70mph through a Mississippi night, a fanfare of electrographics heralds another city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rush of the prose suggests something of the disorientation produced by visiting eleven states in just over a month. She hardly had time to process her impressions of one before moving on to the next. In New England, they spent a few nights sleeping in a log cabin in a redwood forest. In Virginia, they stayed with a Scottish weaver who \u201cbrewed Typhoo tea while nibbling imported shortbread & sighing for black pudding as though it were the fruits of a lost Eden\u201d. In Arizona (\u201cthe most beautiful, barren, wild place\u201d), they passed a Comanche village, and through the bus window Angela watched a young boy throwing stones at a wasted Chevrolet\u2014\u201cthe only glimpse I caught in all my travels in America of the vanishing American himself.\u201d On the Berkeley campus of the University of California, \u201csaffron-robed figures sang and danced \u2018Hare Krishna,\u2019 to my exquisite embarrassment, and everywhere they advertised burgers\u2014hamburgers, bullburgers, broilerburgers, every kind of burger including Murphy\u2019s Irish Shamrockburger.\u201d She thought that America was \u201clike a Godard movie, like all the Godard movies playing at once,\u201d but also \u201ca nation entirely without voluptuousness.\u201d It was an ambivalence that stayed with her, though she returned to the country several times. At the very end of her life\u2014having lived for periods in Texas, Iowa, Rhode Island, and New York State\u2014she wrote: \u201cI think of the United States with awe and sadness, that the country has never, ever quite reneged on the beautiful promise inscribed on the Statue of Liberty \u2026 and yet has fucked so much up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The only constant was her traveling companion. But Paul isn\u2019t mentioned in either of the short pieces of journalism she wrote about the trip (for BBC Radio 3 and the Author<\/em>), or in the journal entries she made while they were there, or even in her letters to Carole. It\u2019s an eloquent omission, as her later descriptions of the journey make clear. The narrator of \u201cThe Quilt Maker\u201d recalls traveling by bus around the USA, \u201csomewhere along my thirtieth year,\u201d in the company of \u201ca man who was then my husband.\u201d At the bus station in Houston, Texas, she asks him for money (\u201che used to carry about all our money for us because he did not trust me with it\u201d) to buy a peach from a vending machine. There are two peaches available in separate compartments of the machine, and she selects the smaller one; he teases her about this instinctive self-denial. \u201cIf the man who was then my husband had not told me I was a fool to take the little peach,\u201d she says, \u201cthen I would never have left him, for in truth, he was, in a manner of speaking, always the little peach to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even so, she hadn\u2019t finally decided on leaving Paul when, on September 3, they boarded separate flights at San Francisco Airport. It\u2019s clear from subsequent letters that they parted on good terms: there had been no dramatic bust-up, and the plan was still for her to return to Bristol in late October. Neither of them imagined that it would be their last moment together as a married couple.<\/p>\n

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Reprinted from The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography<\/a><\/em>, by Edmund Gordon, with permission from Oxford University Press. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Edmund Gordon.<\/p>\n

Edmund Gordon studied philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and English literature at University College London. Since 2011, he has been a lecturer in English at King\u2019s College London. A regular contributor to the <\/em>Times Literary Supplement and the <\/em>London Review of Books, he has also written for a variety of other publications in Britain and the U.S., including<\/em> Bookforum and the<\/em>\u00a0Guardian.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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