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: Praise for THE NIGHT CIRCUS:
""The Night Circus" made me happy. Playful and intensely imaginative, 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"
"If this novel is just cotton candy, it's cotton candy spun from strands of edible silver...With no more lust than a late volume of "Harry Potter," Morgenstern manages to conjure up a love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic. When Celia calls their circus a 'wonder and comfort and mystery all together, ' she could have been talking about this book."
--Ron Charles, "The Washington Post"
"A Romeo and Juliet tale drenched in magic realism, "The Night Circus" defies both genres and expectations. In short, it's a showstopper."
"--The Boston Globe
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"Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, "The Night Circus," is quietly, enchantingly perfect...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"
"[A] dark and extravagantly imagined debut...The plot follows the separate and then intertwining lives of Celia and Marco, both forced to spend their lives pitting their unusual talents against each other in a cruel competition. But their world is Morgenstern's most vivid creation, a fantastical circus featuring illusionists whose powers transcend mere sleight of hand; like those performers, the author entices her audience to suspend disbelief and rewards its members with captivating pleasure."
--"People" magazine
"Morgenstern's exquisitely realized world will have the reader wishing to run off and join this circus."
"--USA Today"
"Morgenstern's Circus is the stuff that