The electric woman a memoir in death-defying acts
In the midst of losing her mother to strokes, Fontaine found herself out on the road with the World of Wonders, America's last traveling sideshow. Transformed into an escape artist, a snake charmer, and a high-voltage Electra, she witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and...
| Main Author: | Fontaine, Tessa (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
In the midst of losing her mother to strokes, Fontaine found herself out on the road with the World of Wonders, America's last traveling sideshow. Transformed into an escape artist, a snake charmer, and a high-voltage Electra, she witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible, and, most marvelous of all, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear-- and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. -- adapted from jacket and amazon.com info. |
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| Physical Description: |
x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780374158378 0374158371 9780374538408 0374538409 |
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