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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I don't know how Angela Carter does it. Her prose manages to be intellectual, hilarious, ribald, heartbreaking, and beautiful all at once. I cannot understand how more people don't know about her! This story encompasses so much--feminism, relationships, isolation, alienation, equality, and even some political musing. One of the most brilliant writers I've ever come across. This is the only Carter I really like, it's superb. Fevvers is a Dickensian character, full of vitality. This is one to reread over and over again Set in the 19th century, Nights at the Circus is a brilliant, baroque and often bawdy tale of a famous winged woman aerialist told in prose so 'exuberant', you'll wish you could take it off the page in great gobs and rub it all over yourself. An absolutely wonderful novel of the fantastic. One of the best http://www.csulb.edu/~bhfinney/Angela... 0.052 seconds to build listing
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This book offers a lot as a feminist text. Gender commentary does not just happen in the interactions between women and men (Fevvers is completely in control of Walser's interview with her) but how a woman interacts with the entire world. If she even may. Fevvers gets a public role because she is a performer - and only that because she has *wings* and has crafted herself into a hyperfeminine "Cockney Venus." What about every other woman who isn't Fevvers?
It's a unique book, that gave me a lot more substance than I expected. The circus atmosphere, the freaks and oddities and fun, becomes secondary to more interesting issues, surprisingly skillful and thoughtful. (