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The Magic Toyshop (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Magic ToyshopIn this brilliantly imagined novel, Angela Carter explores the tormented world of adolescence and the heart's ability to withstand even the deepest sorrows. "A tour de force . . . put out shoots of all Carter's fascinations, which turns up in her later books: illusion and stage magic, myths and folktales, sorcery, the allure of suffering, incest, revenge, escape".--Voice Literary Supplement.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Published: 01 August 1996
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Adult & Contemporary Romance
- ISBN 13: 9780140256406 ISBN 10: 0140256407
- Sales rank: 174,542
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Full description for The Magic Toyshop
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Unlce Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
