Wise Children
By: Angela Carter.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780374530945
Subjects: Women entertainers -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Older women -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Twins -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora -- unacknowledged the daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day -- were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at the age of 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed the Angela Carter tells. A writer known for the richness of her imagination and wit as well as her feminist insights into matters large and small, she created in *Wise Children* an effervescent family saga that manages to celebrate the lore and magic of show business while also exploring the connections between parent and child, the transitory and the immortal, authenticity and falsehood.
Notes: "First published in 1991 by Chatto & Windus, London"--T.p. verso.