- Fiction, Circus, Circus performers, English fiction
American journalist Jack Walser travels with an enchanted circus that feature 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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Prestige, open-ended, meticulous and epic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Angela Carter
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Penguin, Vintage Books USA, Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780701139322
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