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Wise Children
  • Published: 30 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409022442
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Wise Children

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2 June 1992
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30 Nov 2012
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A brilliantly funny and ingeniously written masterpiece, a story that spans a century, written in homage to Shakespeare by the revered Angela Carter.

I know it in my ancient water, that something will happen today...

Today is the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora. And on this day their story begins, a richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. It is in fact, the 23rd April, Shakespeare’s birthday and as Dora’s story unfurls, over the course of a whole century, it is populated with as many sets of twins, mistaken identities and unlikely coincidences as any Shakespeare comedy.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH

'It is wise, bawdy, vulgar, eloquent and very, very funny... And the writing is often breathtakingly lyrical... A masterpiece. Please share' Guardian
  • Published: 30 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409022442
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.

portrait photo of Angela Carter

Also by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Angela Carter BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
Fireworks
The Curious Room
Shaking A Leg
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
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Praise for Wise Children

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

Delightful...this is rich prose which demands thought. It's also wickedly funny and a great read

thebookbag.co.uk

Quite brilliant in every sense of the word

David Evans, Independent on Sunday

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

Delightful...this is rich prose which demands thought. It's also wickedly funny and a great read

thebookbag.co.uk

Quite brilliant in every sense of the word

David Evans, Independent on Sunday