Wise Children - Softcover

Carter, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014017530X ISBN 13: 9780140175301

Publisher: Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.

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Review:

"Dazzling . . . The culmination of Angela Carter's prolific and inventive career." --Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "Wise Children inhabits its own manic universe and would probably translate into a spirited, bawdy musical comedy-farce of the kind which the Chance sisters themselves performed, long ago." --Joyce Carol Oates, "The New York Times Book Review " ""Wise Children" is vintage Carter." --"The Village Voice "

Dazzling . . . The culmination of Angela Carter's prolific and inventive career. "Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"

Wise Children inhabits its own manic universe and would probably translate into a spirited, bawdy musical comedy-farce of the kind which the Chance sisters themselves performed, long ago. "Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review"

"Wise Children" is vintage Carter. "The Village Voice""

"Dazzling . . . The culmination of Angela Carter's prolific and inventive career." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Wise Children inhabits its own manic universe and would probably translate into a spirited, bawdy musical comedy-farce of the kind which the Chance sisters themselves performed, long ago." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

"Wise Children is vintage Carter." --The Village Voice

-Dazzling . . . The culmination of Angela Carter's prolific and inventive career.- --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

-Wise Children inhabits its own manic universe and would probably translate into a spirited, bawdy musical comedy-farce of the kind which the Chance sisters themselves performed, long ago.- --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

-Wise Children is vintage Carter.- --The Village Voice

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 014017530X
• ISBN 13: 9780140175301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240