Wise Children

ISBN-13: 9780099981107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str.

Angela Carter

Opis

This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The 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.

Recenzje

Wise Children is Angela Carter's best book. It deserves many prizes and, better than that, the affection of generations of readers Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.