Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
A fierce competition is underway--a duel between two young circus magicians who have been trained since childhood for this purpose. This is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.
Review Quotes: "Magical. Enchanting. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing." --Associated Press
"Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. This is a marvelous book." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of
The Time Traveler's Wife
"Get ready to be won over. . . . Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut. . . . So sparklingly alive, you'll swear the pages are breathing in your hands. . . .
The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations." --
The Boston Globe "A riveting debut.
The Night Circus pulls you into a world as dark as it is dazzling, fully-realized but still something out of a dream. You will not want to leave it." --Téa Obreht, author of
The Tiger's Wife "
The Night Circus is the real deal, the kind of novel that will appeal to romantics, history buff, circus aficionados, mystery fans, and lovers of a good story. . . . Steeped in circus lore, filled with evocative scenes of magic and illusion, enriched by characters as varied as the clockmaker who crafted the circus's iconic timepiece . . .
The Night Circus is worth staying up for." --
Bookreporter "One of the best books I have ever read." --Brunonia Barry, author of
The Lace Reader "[A] few pages in . . . and you know you are in the presence of an extraordinary storyteller." --
The Daily Beast "Echoing the immense pleasure of Susanna Clarke's
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,
The Night Circus presents a sprightly version of 19th-century English magic. . . . A love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic." --
The Washington Post "Dark and extravagantly imagined." --
People "Pure pleasure. . . . Erin Morgenstern is a gifted, classic storyteller, a tale-teller, a spinner of the charmed and mesmerizing--I had many other things I was supposed to be doing, but the book kept drawing me back in and I tore through it. You can be certain this riveting debut will create a group of rêveurs all its own." --Aimee Bender, author of
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake "[Morgenstern] employs her supple prose to conjure up a series of wonders: A maze made of clouds, a ship of books floating on a sea of ink, a tent that seems to contain a vast desert." --
Salon "Reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical." --
Newsday
