BOOK 80 • This is the last novel by an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. • It was published in 1991 and follows the fortunes of twin chorus girls, Dora and Nora Chance, and their bizarre theatrical family. • It explores the subversive nature of fatherhood, the denying of which leads Nora and Dora to frivolous illegitimate lechery. • The story begins on the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora Chance. By what Dora, who is also the narrator of the story, describes as a bizarre coincidence, it is also the 100th birthday of their natural father, Melchior Hazard, and his fraternal twin brother, Peregrine Hazard, who is believed to be dead. • The date is similarly Shakespeare’s supposed birthday-April 23. • The novel plays on the author’s admiration of Shakespeare and her love of fairy tales and the surreal, incorporating a large amount of magical realism and elements of the carnivalesque that probes and twists our expectations of reality and society.
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