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Funny, bawdy, clever and full of joie de vivre. Dora Chance tells the story of her theatrical family - her twin sister Nora, their Shakespearean actor father Melchior Hazard and various other relations - as they tread the boards from London to Hollywood. Carter weaves in a variety of themes - illegitimacy, Shakespeare, twins, fatherhood - as Dora relates her sparkling story at breakneck speed.
This was my first encounter with Angela Carter and I was left amazed at her skill. The book has been lab ...more
This was my first encounter with Angela Carter and I was left amazed at her skill. The book has been lab ...more
I suspected that this book would contain more magical realism than I usually prefer, and I was right. It reminded me of The Passion by Jeanette Winterson (published just four years earlier) for its eccentric cast cavorting in endless circles through life's bawdy carnival, chock full of memorable imagery and lovely prose. In the end, it provoked in me a scrap of emotional resonance, a similar melancholy I might feel for the drooping elephants and faded acrobats in a seedy circus act. Juxtaposing
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My second Angela Carter book. No carnival in the storyline in this one, but it's still a carnival of an experience to read. Her early death is a tragic loss for fiction.
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It seems like I should brush up on my Shakespeare before tackling this book.
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