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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter (1986, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Nights at the Circus, Paperback by Carter, Angela, ISBN 0140077030, ISBN-13 9780140077032, Brand New, Free shipping in the US American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that features literate chimpanzees, tragic clowns, idealist brigands, a structuralist Siberian shaman, and a six-foot, two-inch blond aerialist who is part swan and part woman
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140077030
ISBN-139780140077032
eBay Product ID (ePID)76263
Product Key Features
Book TitleNights at the Circus
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Historical, Fantasy / Historical
Publication Year1986
GenreFiction
AuthorAngela Carter
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN85-021407
Reviews"An ebullient tall tale . . . spellbinding . . . entrancing." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Loud, bawdy, and unabashedly sentimental . . . a wonderfully vital creation." -- The New York Times " Night at the Circus is good, clean fun--well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment." --Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle "A three-ring extravaganza . . . Carter's brand of fanciful and sometimes kinky feminism has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display." -- Time Acclaim for Angela Carter "Carter produced . . . fiction that was lavishly fabulist and infinitely playful, with a crown jeweler's style, precise but fully colored. . . . Her books are . . . revered by fans of speculative fiction stateside and have influenced writers as diverse as Rick Moody, Sarah Waters, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson and Kelly Link. Salman Rushdie, who became her friend, described her as 'the first great writer I ever met.' Yet her legacy has been a slow and stealthy one, invisible to many of the readers who have benefited from it. . . . Most contemporary literary fiction with a touch of magic, from Karen Russell's to Helen Oyeyemi's, owes something to Angela Carter's trail-blazing. . . . If our personal and literary spaces feel more wide open now, she's one of the ones we have to thank." -- Laura Miller, Salon "She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality . . . dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations." --Ian McEwan, "An ebullient tall tale… spellbinding… entrancing." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "Loud, bawdy, and unabashedly sentimental … a wonderfully vital creation." — The New York Times " Night at the Circus is good, clean fun—well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment." —Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle "A three-ring extravaganza … Carter's brand of fanciful and sometimes kinky feminism has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display." — Time, "An ebullient tall tale… spellbinding… entrancing." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "Loud, bawdy, and unabashedly sentimental … a wonderfully vital creation." — The New York Times " Night at the Circus is good, clean fun—well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment." —Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle "A three-ring extravaganza … Carter''s brand of fanciful and sometimes kinky feminism has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display." — Time, "An ebullient tall tale . . . spellbinding . . . entrancing." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Loud, bawdy, and unabashedly sentimental . . . a wonderfully vital creation." -- The New York Times " Night at the Circus is good, clean fun--well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment." --Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle "A three-ring extravaganza . . . Carter's brand of fanciful and sometimes kinky feminism has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display." -- Time Acclaim for Angela Carter "Carter produced . . . fiction that was lavishly fabulist and infinitely playful, with a crown jeweler's style, precise but fully colored. . . . Her books are . . . revered by fans of speculative fiction stateside and have influenced writers as diverse as Rick Moody, Sarah Waters, Neil Gaiman, Jeff VanderMeer, Jeanette Winterson and Kelly Link. Salman Rushdie, who became her friend, described her as 'the first great writer I ever met.' Yet her legacy has been a slow and stealthy one, invisible to many of the readers who have benefited from it. . . . Most contemporary literary fiction with a touch of magic, from Karen Russell's to Helen Oyeyemi's, owes something to Angela Carter's trail-blazing. . . . If our personal and literary spaces feel more wide open now, she's one of the ones we have to thank." -- Laura Miller, Salon "She writes a prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality . . . dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys, and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations." --Ian McEwan, "An ebullient tall tale... spellbinding... entrancing." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Loud, bawdy, and unabashedly sentimental ... a wonderfully vital creation." -- The New York Times " Night at the Circus is good, clean fun--well, good fun anyway. Its raunchy moments are steaming, bizarre, at times unsettling, but there is definitely an appreciation here for love, sentiment, and entertainment." --Raymond Mungo, San Francisco Chronicle "A three-ring extravaganza ... Carter's brand of fanciful and sometimes kinky feminism has never been more thoroughly or entertainingly on display." -- Time
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber , her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan Sophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec--is an aerialiste extraordinaire , star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes him--and the reader--on an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia--a tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it.
LC Classification NumberPR6053.A73N5 1986
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