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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 29/09/1994
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ISBN: 9780099388616
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £8.99
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.
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 29/09/1994
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ISBN: 9780099388616
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Length: 368 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm
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Weight: 255g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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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
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"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
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"A mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel"
Observer
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"A remarkable book by any standards"
Guardian
