The Magic Toyshop - Brossura

Carter, Angela

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0860681904 ISBN 13: 9780860681908

Casa editrice: Virago, 1981

Riassunto

'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 night once again, and the doll was herself.'

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the home of her childhood, she is sent to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie and Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the toys he makes in his workshop: clockwork roses and puppets that are life-size - and uncannily life-like.

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Recensione:

The boldest of English women writers (Lorna Sage)

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 (The Times)

Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes-from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch.... It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling (New York Times)

Descrizione del libro:

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0860681904
• ISBN 13: 9780860681908
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208