The Circus in Winter (Paperback)
$18.95 - Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 72 hours | |Short Description for The Circus in Winter Spanning the years from 1884 to 1939, a unique novel in stories charts the long relationship between the Great Porter Circus and a small town in Indiana, where circus folk and small-town inhabitants mingle in a series of long-term relationships that cross into both worlds. Reprint.
Full description- Publisher: HARVEST BOOKS
- Published: 06 July 2005
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780156032025 ISBN 10: 0156032023
- Sales rank: 915,847
Full description for The Circus in Winter
From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man's life-or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show's manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. In her astonishing debut, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives, bringing the greatest show on earth to the page.
