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Dora and Nora Chance are a famous song-and-dance team of the British music halls. Billed as The Lucky Chances, the sisters are the illegitimate and unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchoir Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. At once ribald and sentimental, glittery and tender, this rambunctious family saga is Angela Carter at her bewitching best.
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Wise Children follows the fortunes of the Chance twins, Dora and Nora, taking in the story of their show business family -- the Hazards -- over the past century. Born illegitimately, spurned by their father Melchior and brought up by their landlady, Mrs Chance, Dora and Nora learn to dance, and begin to forge a career, ?two girls pounding the boards?. After the post-war decline of their careers they are reduced to performing in nude revues, while the latest generation of Hazards rise to fame as stars of television. Angela Carter's witty and bawdy new novel celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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"One of the century’s best writers" -- Sunday Times
"A fine, fierce, incandescent talent" -- Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday
"She was a great writer and a great feminist, and will be read for illumination and entertainment for many years to come" -- New Statesman
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"She was a great writer and a great feminist, and will be read for illumination and entertainment for many years to come" -- New Statesman
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 014017530X
- ISBN 13 9780140175301
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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