NOTE: Book did not have ISBN # so I listed it under THE MAGIC TOYSHOP. It is actually a three volume anthology of Carter's writing. Description as follows:
The three novels in this voume spna the thirty year writing career of Angela Carter. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (1967), Carter's second novel, demonstrates her brilliant imagination and stratling intensity as it explores the nature and boundries of love. When Melanies parents are killed, she and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to be raised by an uncle she has never met---an eccentric toymaker who lives with his mute wife and her two brothers, one of whom becomes Melanie's first love. (NOTE: This is a *great* story!) THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN (1972) tells of a prosperous city that is gradually overtake by hallucinations, mirages, and metamorpheses; the book's centrral characters include a reluctant knight errant, a beguilingprincess and a magician of truly godlike powers. Carter's last novel, WISE CHILDREN (!991) is the richly comic tale of 75 year old twins Noran and Dora, a song-and-dance team who are the unacknowledged daughters of a great Shakespearean actor.
The three novels in this voume spna the thirty year writing career of Angela Carter. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (1967), Carter's second novel, demonstrates her brilliant imagination and stratling intensity as it explores the nature and boundries of love. When Melanies parents are killed, she and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to be raised by an uncle she has never met---an eccentric toymaker who lives with his mute wife and her two brothers, one of whom becomes Melanie's first love. (NOTE: This is a *great* story!) THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN (1972) tells of a prosperous city that is gradually overtake by hallucinations, mirages, and metamorpheses; the book's centrral characters include a reluctant knight errant, a beguilingprincess and a magician of truly godlike powers. Carter's last novel, WISE CHILDREN (!991) is the richly comic tale of 75 year old twins Noran and Dora, a song-and-dance team who are the unacknowledged daughters of a great Shakespearean actor.
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