Folio Society Published Works Number 3566
Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
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Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus (Published in by The Folio Society in 2021. Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter's tale of love and magic, circuses and lies, receives its first illustrated Folio Society edition. Royal Academician Eileen Cooper provides extraordinary linocut images, Sarah Waters introduces. Bound in printed and blocked cloth. Set in Laurentian. 376 pages. 9 colour and 13 black & white integrated illustrations. Gold slipcase. 9.5" x 6.25". Nights at the Circus tells the story of Sophie Fevvers, half woman, half swan, all super star, and journalist Jack Walser’s quest to find the truth behind her unlikely legend. Stuffed to the gills with Angela Carter's wildly original storytelling, gorgeously slippery language, and all the pleasures and horrors of a fairy tale, this first illustrated edition features nine exclusive colour illustrations and a set of black-and-white chapter headings by celebrated printmaker Eileen Cooper. A Royal Academician, Cooper has credited fairy tales, mythology and the female figure as core inspirations for her work, making her the perfect artist to bring Carter's lush imagery to life. Sarah Waters's novel Tipping the Velvet trod the same theatrical boards as Nights at the Circus, and here she provides an introduction celebrating Carter's 'masterpiece' and the author's unique power to 'unsettle as well as to inspire and console'. This is a sensational edition of one of the 20th century’s greatest literary spectacles. )
