Book description
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.
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 Inventive and brilliant The Times A funny, funny
book, Wise Children is even better than Nights at the Circus. It
deserves all the bouquets, diamonds and stage-door Johnnies it can get
Independent on Sunday 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 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.
