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Nights at the Circus

Nights at the Circus

by Angela Carter (Author)

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    Paperback 1994

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    Paperback 1985

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    Paperback 1986

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Synopsis

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 29 Sep 1994
ISBN 10: 0099388618
ISBN 13: 9780099388616
Book Overview: 'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times
 Prizes: Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2012 and James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1984 and James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Fiction 1984.

Media Reviews
Nights at the Circus is a glorious enchantment. But an enchantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language...It is a spell-binding achievement * Literary Review *
A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieces. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment * Times Literary Supplement *
A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel * Observer *
A remarkable book by any standards * Guardian *
Author Bio
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.