Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter

Fantasy Magical Realism
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (Best Novel) 1984. 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
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1984
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