<i>Wise Children</i> is Angela Carter's best book. It deserves many prizes and, better than that, the affection of generations of readers

Times Literary Supplement

Inventive and brilliant

The Times

A funny, funny book, <i>Wise Children</i> is even better than <i>Nights at the Circus</i>. It deserves all the bouquets, diamonds and stage-door Johnnies it can get<i></i>

Independent on Sunday

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Wonderful writing...there is not much fiction around that is as good as this

Daily Telegraph

Delightful...this is rich prose which demands thought. It's also wickedly funny and a great read

thebookbag.co.uk

This title is presented with an introduction by Ali Smith. A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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Wise Children is Angela Carter's best book. It deserves many prizes and, better than that, the affection of generations of readers
'One of the century's finest writers' Sunday Times

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099981107
Publisert
1992-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
184 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Introduction by

Biographical note

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992.