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26%OFFAngela Carter - The Magic Toyshop - 9781844085231 - V9781844085231
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The Magic Toyshop

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Description for The Magic Toyshop Hardback. Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer Series: VMC Designer Collection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334.

'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE

'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER

'She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales' THE TIMES

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the ... Read more

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized - and uncannily lifelike.

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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
VMC Designer Collection
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085231
SKU
V9781844085231
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99

About Angela Carter
Angela Carter (1940-1992) is one of Britain's most original and disturbing writers. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1969 and SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1968.

Reviews for The Magic Toyshop
The boldest of English women writers Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night sky with her starry language
Observer
She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales
... Read more

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