This is perhaps Angela Carter's wittiest novel, an ostentatiously
charming meditation on Englishness, class and Shakespeare that
plays more games with twins and identity than The Comedy of Errors
and has more sudden reversals of fortune than Lear. The Hazard
dynasty dominates the legitimate stage, while its byblows, the
narrator Dora Chance and her sister Nora, become stars of music
hall and revue. This is Carter's least experimental novel, only
post-modern in its insistence that the art of fiction is about fun,
and about games. (Kirkus UK)
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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