The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman
by Angela Carter
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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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Fiction, erotica, general, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Physicians, Fiction, Sexual ethics, Space and time, Magic realism (Literature), English Science fiction, Romance Ingles, Fiction, general, Fiction, humorous, Physicians--fiction, Sexual ethics--fiction, Pr6053.a73 i54 1994, C238Showing 6 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Angela Carter
2011, Penguin Books, Penguin Classic, imusti
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Adskie mashiny zhelanii Ła Doktora Khoffmana: roman
2000, Amfora
in Russian
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (King Penguin)
March 4, 1986, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman
1982, Penguin Books
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"First published in Great Britain by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1972; first published in the United States of America under the title The war of dreams by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973"--T.p. verso.
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