Angela Carter

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

Nights at the Circus

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.

Mayra Melo

"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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