Book description
Constructive genius is at work in Paul Gallico's fairy tales in modern dress. Love of Seven Dolls is Snow White / Beauty & the Beast shot with the charm and poetry of a little French film. A young girl's imagination runs wild as she teams up with a puppet show.
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This is my indulgence! My all-time favourite and definite pick me up if miserable.
Mouche, a discarded dancer, is about to throw herself Into the Seine.
Walking through the fair she passes a puppet booth, and these seven puppets engage her in conversation. They give her advice and she talks aloud to them as if they are real. Of course the actual voice comes from the puppeteer, an evil man who rapes her whilst at the same time talking to her through the puppets. This Dichotomy of good versus evil existing in just the one person is a lesson…
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