The Magic Toyshop - Couverture rigide

Carter, Angela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860681904 ISBN 13 : 9780860681908

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 1981

Synopsis

This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked... She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.'

Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she climbs the apple tree in the black of the moon. Omens of disaster, swiftly following, transport Melanie from rural comfort to London, to the Magic Toyshop.

To the red-haired, dancing Finn, the gentle Francie, dumb Aunt Margaret and Uncle Phillip. Francie plays curious night music, Finn kisses fifteen-year-old Melanie in the mysterious ruins of the pleasure gardens. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip: Uncle Philip, with blank eyes the colour of wet newspaper, making puppets the size of men, and clockwork roses. He loves his magic puppets, but hates the love of man for woman, boy for girl, brother for sister...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Angela Carter was born in 1940. One of Britain's most original and disturbing writers, she died in 1992.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860681904
• ISBN 13: 9780860681908
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne