Nights at the Circus
- Auteur: Angela Carter (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse circusroman uit 1984
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
- Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 4,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus recensie en review
- “Raunchy, raucous…a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety.” (The Times)
- “A spellbinding achievement.” (Literary Review)
- “One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World”
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1984 van de Engelse schrijfster Angela Carter
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. She is also part woman, part swan. 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.
De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel Circusnachten is in 2020 verschenen bij Uitgeverij Orlando.
Angela Carter was born on 7 Mai 1940 in Eastbourne, England,. 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 on 16 February 1992 in London at the age of 51 from lung cancer.