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Wise Children

by: Angela Carter (author)

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Librarian Note: Alternate cover edition for ISBN 0099981106.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... show more

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Format: paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Pages no: 234

Edition language: English

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Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Feminism, Magical Realism

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6 years ago

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There is something wonderful about an Angela Carter novel. A certain charm. A feeling of a warm blanket that you pull over yourself and then the cat jumps on it and sticks her claws into your leg. That sort of feeling. Wise Children is Carter’s last novel and is a love song and dance to the theater ...

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11 years ago

http://MaryMR.booklikes.com Lived in a Pretty www.livedinapretty.com/ 5.0 Wise Children by Angela Carter

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This is a novel told by a singular voice writing her memoir. Or shall I say their memoirs. Our narrator is Dora Chance who once lightly traipsed the British Vaudeville boards back in the day with her twin sister Nora. They have not only lived ‘life upon the wicked stage,’ but have been forever witne...

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12 years ago

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caseyreads rated it

13 years ago

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I liked Wise Children by the end of the book, although at the beginning I had my doubts. Part of this can be attributed to Carter's writing style. At times it is jumbled and fast-paced; close to a stream-of-consciousness style, but not completely so. The first 50 pages had me grinding my teeth a bit...

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