The Magic Toyshop
$41.66
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2008
Summary
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag
This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked … She was in the night 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 her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844085236 |
| Author: | Angela Carter, Carmen Callil |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 178mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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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
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
The boldest of English women writers - Lorna SageHer writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language - ObserverThe boldest of English women writers - Lorna SageHer writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language - ObserverAbout The Author
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.
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