The Night Circus: A NovelThe circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is calledLe Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, 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. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. |
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User Review - streamsong - LibraryThingTwo ancient magicians each choose a ward for a competition to see which of them can create the better magician. They have done so many times before and the last competition lasted for over eighty ... Read full review
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User Review - fionaanne - LibraryThingThis could have been a really good book but it wasn't. The premise was wonderful and then the author ruined it with endless unnecessary descriptive passages (apparently readers cannot be trusted to ... Read full review
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| Title | The Night Circus: A Novel |
| Author | Erin Morgenstern |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0385534639, 9780385534635 |
| Length | 387 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Fantasy / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction / Women |
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