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Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter - James
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"[The novel] masks itself on the chaotic cusp of the twentieth-century, where time begins to fall into a state of gaudy entropy; thus Nights at the Circus reworks that elemental energy into prose that is richly dark, both sweeping like velvet and luxuriously dirty ... In Carter's trademark rococo excess, there are so many things to be said about this gothic, exuberant novel, and yet nothing would be able to encompass the sheer vitality of the primal tug of the story with which Carter enchants with."
(James, review)
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