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Travels with a Mexican Circus

Hickman, Katie
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408853610
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
279 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Hickman, Katie

Biographical note

Katie Hickman is the author of several previous books, including history books, travel narratives, and novels. She has been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year award. Hickman lives in London with her two children and her husband, the philosopher A.C. Grayling.

Travels with a Mexican Circus

Hickman, Katie
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
Hickman, Katie
Heftet / 2014 / Engelsk
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A wonderful writer … An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure

Guardian

A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... Katie seems as deliberate and calculating as Paul Theroux poring over his railway timetables ... a very good travel book indeed

Harpers & Queen

Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene’s <i>the Lawless Roads... </i>Enchanting

Daily Telegraph

Se alle

Magic is at the heart of Hickman’s narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents

Sunday Times

The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing

Patrick Skene Catling

_______________ 'A wonderful writer … An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure' - Guardian 'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene’s The Lawless Roads ... Enchanting' - Daily Telegraph 'Magic is at the heart of Hickman’s narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents' - Sunday Times _______________ The delightfully beguiling account of novelist Katie Hickman's adventures with a Mexican circus Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus – Big Top, clowns, elephants and all – where cheap, torn materials and tarnished sequins are transformed into nights of glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus’s nomadic lifestyle, she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world, at first as a foreigner but later as ‘La Gringa Estrella’, a performer in her own right. Travels with a Mexican Circus is an unforgettable account of a year-long journey through an extraordinary and bizarrely beautiful country. _______________ 'A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez' - Harpers & Queen 'The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing' - Patrick Skene Catling
Les mer
<b>The delightfully beguiling account of novelist Katie Hickman's adventures with a Mexican circus</b>
First published in 1993, this reissued edition will win a new generation of followers for Katie Hickman's exquisite travel writing

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A wonderful writer … An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure

Guardian

A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... Katie seems as deliberate and calculating as Paul Theroux poring over his railway timetables ... a very good travel book indeed

Harpers & Queen

Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene’s <i>the Lawless Roads... </i>Enchanting

Daily Telegraph

Se alle

Magic is at the heart of Hickman’s narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents

Sunday Times

The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing

Patrick Skene Catling

_______________ 'A wonderful writer … An adventure hard to beat in terms of sheer exotic allure' - Guardian 'Mexico will not have been portrayed more vividly since Graham Greene’s The Lawless Roads ... Enchanting' - Daily Telegraph 'Magic is at the heart of Hickman’s narrative, not just in the fabulous illusions of the acts themselves or the superstitions of the circus people, but in the fantastic stories of the characters she presents' - Sunday Times _______________ The delightfully beguiling account of novelist Katie Hickman's adventures with a Mexican circus Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus – Big Top, clowns, elephants and all – where cheap, torn materials and tarnished sequins are transformed into nights of glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus’s nomadic lifestyle, she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world, at first as a foreigner but later as ‘La Gringa Estrella’, a performer in her own right. Travels with a Mexican Circus is an unforgettable account of a year-long journey through an extraordinary and bizarrely beautiful country. _______________ 'A delight... The stories of the cirqueros themselves read like tales by Gabriel Garcia Marquez' - Harpers & Queen 'The most ambitiously imaginative sort of travel writing' - Patrick Skene Catling
Les mer
<b>The delightfully beguiling account of novelist Katie Hickman's adventures with a Mexican circus</b>
First published in 1993, this reissued edition will win a new generation of followers for Katie Hickman's exquisite travel writing

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408853610
Publisert
2014-08-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
279 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Hickman, Katie

Biographical note

Katie Hickman is the author of several previous books, including history books, travel narratives, and novels. She has been shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year award. Hickman lives in London with her two children and her husband, the philosopher A.C. Grayling.

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