Wise Children Synopsis
This title is presented with an introduction by Ali Smith.
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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Angela Carter Press Reviews
It is wise, bawdy, vulgar, eloquent and very, very funny... And the writing is often breathtakingly lyrical... A masterpiece. Please share. - Guardian
Wise Children is Angela Carter's best book. It deserves many prizes and, better than that, the affection of generations of readers - Times Literary Supplement
Inventive and brilliant - The Times
A funny, funny book, Wise Children is even better than Nights at the Circus. It deserves all the bouquets, diamonds and stage-door Johnnies it can get - Independent on Sunday
Wonderful writing...there is not much fiction around that is as good as this - Daily Telegraph
About Angela Carter
Angela Carter was born in 1940 of a Scottish father and Yorkshire mother. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magic realism. She died in 1992.
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