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The Magic Toyshop Paperback - 1996
by Angela Carter
In this brilliantly imagined novel, Angela Carter explores the tormented world of adolescence and the heart's ability to withstand even the deepest sorrows. "A tour de force . . . put out shoots of all Carter's fascinations, which turns up in her later books: illusion and stage magic, myths and folktales, sorcery, the allure of suffering, incest, revenge, escape".--Voice Literary Supplement.
Summary
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Unlce Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
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- Title The Magic Toyshop
- Author Angela Carter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1996-08-01
- ISBN 9780140256406 / 0140256407
- Weight 0.38 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.12 x 0.56 in (19.61 x 13.00 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Teenage girls, Fairy tales
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95026415
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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"A magic novel, sexy and eccentric, romantic and tricky."
Voice Literary Supplement
"Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoesfrom Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch. It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling."
The New York Times Book Review
Voice Literary Supplement
"Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoesfrom Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch. It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling."
The New York Times Book Review
Citations
- Library Journal, 05/01/1996, Page 138
- New York Times, 03/17/1996, Page 32
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