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Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

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#168 of 8,085 books · #34 in Fantasy

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1984). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.

Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is also part woman, part swan. But is she part swan...or all fake? 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. Nights at the Circus was named to the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
ISBN-13
9781409015338
Topics
Identity and illusionCircus life and spectacleFemale empowerment

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