Nights at the Circus
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2012
368 pages
978-1-4090-1533-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH WATERS
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
'A spellbinding achievement' Literary Review
'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times
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.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH WATERS
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
'A spellbinding achievement' Literary Review
'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
File size
0,65 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4090-1533-8 (9781409015338)
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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.
