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Cover design by Jacqueline Groag ''This crazy world whirled
about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even
the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked
...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself'' One night
Melanie walks through the garden in her mother''s wedding dress. The
next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural
home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never
met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her
brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature,
and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves
only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized -
and uncannily life-like.
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Angela Carter 1940-1992 is one of Britain''s most original
and disturbing writers. THE MAGIC TOYSHOP won the John Llewellyn
Rhys Prize in 1969 and SEVERAL PERCEPTIONS won the Somerset Maugham
Prize in 1968.
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