The Magic Toyshop
by Angela Carter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0860681904
- ISBN 13
- 9780860681908
- Seller
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Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Virago Modern Classics #56,
Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1967
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Slight rubbing along cover edges,
Gently worn throughout,
Sticker on front and back cover (see photos),
Foxing on endpages,
Light tanning of pages
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Prompted by the vicissitudes of misfortunes, this dark and sensual bildungsroman explores the bewildering intensity of love and growing up
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200 pages, 154g, 199mm x 130mm x 14mm
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100% of book sale goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Library Kit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TLK225
- Title
- The Magic Toyshop
- Author
- Angela Carter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0860681904
- ISBN 13
- 9780860681908
- Publisher
- Virago Modern Classics
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- VIragos;
Terms of Sale
The Library Kit
About the Seller
The Library Kit
About The Library Kit
100% of book sales goes towards Women's Community Shelters in NSW ($2,110.30 donated as of 16th May, 2024)
Postage-free pick-up available in and around Camperdown/Darlington area. Email thelibrarykit@gmail.com with preferences.
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