The Magic Toyshop - Couverture rigide

Carter, Angela

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844085236 ISBN 13 : 9781844085231

Editeur : Virago, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

The boldest of English women writers (Lorna Sage)

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night sky with her starry language (Observer)

She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales (The Times)

Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes-from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch.... It leaves behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling (New York Times)

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language (Observer)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Cover design by Jacqueline Groag

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

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized - and uncannily life-like.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844085236
• ISBN 13: 9781844085231
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240