Name: Nights at the Circus
Rating: 3.558823529411764 (17 reviews)

Tom Morris

Angela Carter

Emma Rice

Opened at London's Lyric Hammersmith in 2006.

Nights at the Circus

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

Incredible writing, but at some points - especially towards the end - I had no idea what was going on. I guess that's partly the point. Richly metaphorical, the kind of book you could easily read multiple times and get something different from it on each reading.

Doug Belshaw

lizbet koval

i don’t think i have something new to say about it. nothing fresh. however, i have found it to be a book that is worthy to come back to. when one is ready to discover more and more within those pages, sentences and words.

"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."--Back cover.

Nights at the Circus

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