Angela Carter
Paperback | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 3.85 | 8678 Users | 715 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Magic Toyshop |
| Author | : | Angela Carter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 1996 by Penguin Books (first published 1967) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Gothic. Classics. Horror |
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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 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 garden. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshops. The classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works."Beneath its contemporary surface, this novel shimmers with blurred echoes—from Lewis Carroll, from 'Giselle' and 'Coppelia,' Harlequin and Punch… It leave behind it a flavor, pungent and unsettling" —The New York Times Book Review
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| Original Title: | The Magic Toyshop |
| ISBN: | 0140256407 (ISBN13: 9780140256406) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1968) |
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♡ wordpress ♡ tumblr ♡ instagram ♡ twitter ♡_____________________________ She was too young, too soft and new, to come to terms with these wild beings whose minds veered at crazy angles from the short, straight, smooth lines of her own experience. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter is a poignant, enthrallingly dark piece consisting of adjective and metaphorical heaven. The narrative is beautiful. Which makes the story all the more shocking. The storyline follows a curiously gross structureI will admit that Im disappointed in this read. It wasnt what I thought it would be and I had high hopes for this one. The cover is what originally drew me in, but it sounded like a fun, dark romance type book. It was dark, but the romance was not fun and I disliked most of the characters. (view spoiler)[ I did enjoy the very last scene where Uncle Phillip was gone and they were just having fun and drinking, but the scene was cut short by some more creepy stuff. (hide spoiler)] So I feel like
010717: are you tired of ordinary people? are you tired of ambiguity in characters? are you tired of sensible plots? do you yearn for exaggerated morality of adult fairy tales? well then this is the book for you. i do not mean this in a bad way, as i did enjoy this but, truly, more for invention of modernish magical realist parallels for gothic stories than for great art. that is, for the artist in one rather than the philosopher... the cover image of my copy- puppet/characters manipulated by
A beautiful and whimsical read, quite enjoyed it
In this staged fantasy, anything was possible. The Magic Toyshop was not what I expected. Where at the start there is a promise of a gothic horror story of poor orphans falling pray to their cruel uncle, the tale actually is more a coming-of-age story sprinkled with horror. Not bad either, because the author kept me on edge the whole time. Angela Carter is known for writing eerie fairy tales with feminist characters and magical elements, and The Toyshop being one of her first works it fits
Normally, I walk into bookstores with a list. I didnt, this time. I felt adventurous. The bookstore was enormous; there were rows and rows of shelves, winding so far it seemed endless. Shaking with delight at the sight of this, I had to ask a saleswoman what time they closed, as I was certain I would be there all day. And I had to set an alarm on my watch an hour before closing time so Id not be rudely jerked out of my book-browsing stupor by the announcements and rush to the counter with an
The simple fairy-tale / literature-of-orphans-and-misfortune (and lots of overlap there) surface of this story seems to conceal a high level of thematic deftness and intricacy, seemingly built around a series of simulacra. And where will it all go?...Later: somewhere slightly else, maybe, but the complex underlyings are pretty fascinating. Identity and self, as external from the self, in objects and more importantly, in others. But constructed with a deftness and overriding narative coherency
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