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The Magic Toyshop/The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman/Wise Children
The Magic Toyshop/The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman/Wise Children The three novels in this volume span the thirty year writing career of Angela Carter. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (1967), Carter's scrond novel, demonstrates her brilliant imagination and startling intensity as it explores the nature and boundries of love. When 15 year old Melanie's parents are killed, she is sent to London to be raised by an uncle she ... more »has never met---an eccentric toymaker who lives with his mute wife and her two brothers, one of whom becomes Melanie first love. (Note: "The Magic Toyshop is a wonderful novel!!!) THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DOCTOR HOFFMAN (1972) tells of a prosperous city that is gradually overtaken by mirages, hallucinations, and metamorpheses; the book's central characters include a reluctant knight errant, a beguiling princess, and a magician of truly godlike powers. Carter's last novel, WISE CHILDREN (1991), is the richly comic tale of 75 year old twin sisters Nora and Dora, a song-and-dance teams who are the unacknowledged daughters of a great Shakespearean actor.« less