Wise Children

A Novel

By: Angela Carter

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Paperback | 10 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.27

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In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora—unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day—were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed that Angela Carter tells. A writer known for the richness of her imagination and wit as well as her feminist insights into matters large and small, she created in Wise Children an effervescent family saga that manages to celebrate the lore and magic of show business while also exploring the connections between parent and child, the transitory and the immortal, authenticity and falsehood.

Industry Reviews

"Dazzling . . . The culmination of Angela Carter's prolific and inventive career." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Wise Children inhabits its own manic universe and would probably translate into a spirited, bawdy musical comedy-farce of the kind which the Chance sisters themselves performed, long ago." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

"Wise Children is vintage Carter." --The Village Voice

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