The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Carter

“Imagine the perplexity of a man outside time and space, who has lost his watch, his measuring rod and his tuning fork.” Alfred Jarry, Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustrall Pataphysician. Can you? Really? Here is a novel with high ambition indeed, as the dastardly (and unseen) Dr Hoffman wages war on mankind by playing with the very tides of time. Mirages ebb and flow through the cities, as desires are “actualized” sending people insane or hurtling off cliffs, or both. The past meets the future as hundred-year-old streets are immutably transposed onto future ... more