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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
December 2007
On Sale: December 10, 2007
Featuring: Dora Chance; Nora Chance
240 pages
ISBN: 0374530947
EAN: 9780374530945
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In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early
twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister,
Nora—unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the
greatest Shakespearean actor of his day—were known as the
Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as
their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their
life story, and it is a tale indeed that Angela Carter
tells. A writer known for the richness of her imagination
and wit as well as her feminist insights into matters large
and small, she created in Wise Children an
effervescent family saga that manages to celebrate the lore
and magic of show business while also exploring the
connections between parent and child, the transitory and the
immortal, authenticity and falsehood.
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