Nights at the Circus (Picador Books)
by Angela Carter | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0330288369 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0330288369 Global Overview for this book
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This is a slim-ish paperback.
'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy-tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, she has invented a new, raunchy, raucous Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back in a rich, turn of the 19th Century world, which reeks of human and animal vitality...NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS is a book with many stories but Angela Carter has not softnened her demands upon the reader. It remains the language that holds the power source: rudely colloquial perhaps but none the less dense, detailed with delight'.
THE TIMES
'NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS is a glorious enchantment. But an echantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language. Life is ever present as images ricochet around the reader picking out this and that, then discarding it with infinite resonance. It is a spell-binding achievment'
THE LITERARY REVIEW
'A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieceS. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Angela Carter's fiction has always been written with a fallen angel's touch for the freaky and sinister, alleviated just a bit by a soiled fairy's relish for black but also puckish comic turns. Ms Carter's novel is a mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both amusing and also provactively serious. This is a big, superatively imagine novel'
OBSERVER.
'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy-tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS, she has invented a new, raunchy, raucous Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back in a rich, turn of the 19th Century world, which reeks of human and animal vitality...NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS is a book with many stories but Angela Carter has not softnened her demands upon the reader. It remains the language that holds the power source: rudely colloquial perhaps but none the less dense, detailed with delight'.
THE TIMES
'NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS is a glorious enchantment. But an echantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language. Life is ever present as images ricochet around the reader picking out this and that, then discarding it with infinite resonance. It is a spell-binding achievment'
THE LITERARY REVIEW
'A glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieceS. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Angela Carter's fiction has always been written with a fallen angel's touch for the freaky and sinister, alleviated just a bit by a soiled fairy's relish for black but also puckish comic turns. Ms Carter's novel is a mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both amusing and also provactively serious. This is a big, superatively imagine novel'
OBSERVER.
