Wise Children by Angela Carter - 1991

London: Chatto & Windus, 1991 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". None. A fine copy of the first edition of Angela Carter's final novel, an astounding work of magical realism set in the 1920s English theatre. The first edition, first impression of Angela Carter's final novel, published the year before her death. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Described as a surreal ride through English theatrical and music hall traditions, the novel follows the fortunes of twin chorus girls, Dora and Nora Chance, and their bizarre theatrical family.The novel plays on Carter's admiration of Shakespeare and her love of fairy tales and the surreal, incorporating elements of magical realism and the carnivalesque. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Minor edgewear to dust wrapper back strip head and tail, otherwise excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine