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Heroes and Villains

(1969)
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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.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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"Original, talented, disturbing...the vision is so complete and so finely imaginative." - Julian Symons


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