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Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

Paperback | Pages: 295 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 9896 Users | 806 Reviews

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Title	:	Nights at the Circus
Author	:	Angela Carter
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 295 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published September 27th 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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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Original Title:	Nights at the Circus
ISBN:	0140077030 (ISBN13: 9780140077032)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sophie Fevvers, Jack Walser, Colonel Kearney
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1984), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1985)

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Reviewed in September 2012There are many aspects of the bizarre world of this book that I admire even though it took me a while to get hooked by the story. I was ready to abandon it anytime during the first fifty pages until I came across a remark to the effect that for those who have never seen a match, striking one must seem like magic. Then I understood something of what Carter was trying to do. She implies that since we don't know everything about the mysteries of the natural world, a lot of

'Wherein does a woman's honour reside, old chap? In her vagina or in her spirit?'Sprawling, bawdy, bizarre, repulsive, enchanting. Angela Carters imagination will never cease to astound me. Nights at the Circus is an endlessly original, entirely absorbing magical realism saturated with ambience. Her lush, elegant, ridiculous prose revels in her usual dichotomy of dreamy, psychedelic descriptions brought into sharp focus by the earthy, repellent reminders of filth. How does she do it? How?!What

In typical Angela Carter fashion, "Nights at the Circus" appeals to our baser human instincts by attempting to shock us with freaks, incest, cannibalism, and excrement. The whole time I was reading it, I called it my albatross. Since I had gotten past page 50 (every book gets a 50 page chance from me) due to the book's, at times, lyrical and surreal beauty, I felt violated by so much ugliness in the book's second half. But by then, I had to finish it. It took me an entire month to read this

Fabulous! I'd been expecting good things from this book, as everyone always tells me how wonderful Angela Carter is, and it certainly delivered! It's a surreal, earthy kind of book, divided into three distinct parts, which largely focus on the introduction of Fevvers (the fabulous cockney winged woman), the days at the circus, and the wilds of Siberia. Hey, I did warn you it was surreal! In this book, the reader encounters intelligent pigs (I LOVED Sybil!), brothel madams who like dressing up as

I'm surprised that I took no notes while reading this book. I have a feeling it was because I came so en-rapt in Sophie's tale I forgot all else. Isn't that the point of a good book? Did I say this book is good? Well I will now. This book is good!From the start you wonder if her story really is true when she claims to have been hatched but soon you realize there is something strange going on. Like the reporter, Jack Walser you could swear that you've been listening all night until the clock

Angela Carter's world is, as always, a dirty, earthy, erotic, yet soaringly ethereal place to spend one's time. It is as hard to capture the essence of her tone and her outlook as it is to exactly pin down all of her insightful commentary, as wrapped up in velvet and hidden by veils of fairy dust as they can be. Her earthy, body based, yet highly intellectual feminism is my favorite. Carter makes me feel the pain of and rejoice in the awesomeness of being a woman all at once, and I really