Dancing with Mermaids
 First edition | |
| Author | Miles Gibson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Heinemann (UK) E. P. Dutton (US) |
Publication date | 1985 (first edition) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 195 p. |
| ISBN | 0434291315 |
| OCLC | 12804793 |
Dancing With Mermaids is the second novel by the English writer Miles Gibson. The novel includes elements of magic realism and erotica.
Plot
[edit]The novel is set in the secluded fishing village of Rams Horn, once a fashionable Regency spa, at the mouth of the River Sheep, somewhere on the Dorset coast. Rams Horn is described by the author as ‘a memory, a lost cause, a carnival of ghosts, an ark of half-forgotten dreams’. The Financial Times described the setting as a secretive place ‘full of leery, venal, outsize, hideous and beautiful people’ [citation needed].
Publication History
[edit]First published by William Heinemann, London, 1985. ISBN 0-434-29131-5. First US edition published by EP Dutton 1986. Reprinted in the UK by the Do Not Press 1997.
Reception
[edit]The New Yorker described the novel as ‘a wild, funny, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies’.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Briefly Noted", The New Yorker, July 13, 1987, p. 89
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