Dancing with Mermaids

1985 novel by Miles Gibson

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| Print
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

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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

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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

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The New Yorker described the novel as ‘a wild, funny, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies’.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "Briefly Noted", The New Yorker, July 13, 1987, p. 89

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