Nights at the Circus | Characters
This novel contains a motley crew of weird and wonderful background characters: a sisterhood of prostitutes, kinky Johns, a one-eyed madam who dresses as Admiral Nelson, miscellaneous side-show freaks, circus performers, prescient pigs, contract writing chimps, dancing tigers, escaped female inmates of a Siberian panopticon prison, to name but a few.
The main characters are no less fantastical, intimately connected to the magical/ real paradox central to Nights at the Circus. Carter has aptly characterized the heroine as "Mae West with wings," highlighting her irreverent...
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