Nights at the Circus

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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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

Product details

• Authors: Angela Carter
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780099388616
• ISBN: 978-0-09-938861-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); London, Greater London, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, Historical fantasy, Magical Realism, Saint Petersburg, Feminism and feminist theory, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), FICTION / Feminist, Siberia