Agents Scully and Mulder travel to Gibsonton, Florida, to investigate a bizarre murder among a group of circus and sideshow performers.
But I fancy you know all that, having read Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. “As I live and breathe!” the Hottentot Venus exclaimed. “Shanghaied by Spider Kelley! Who would 'a guessed it!” 27 Sailors were dosed with a ...
By the author of Do Not Open This Book.
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) is best known for his bold, modernist paintings of showgirls and circus performers.
The groundskeeper and clown of The Great Papouli Circus narrates the adventures of an endearing family of mystical performers and the turmoil that enters their lives when their beloved Mamouli resolves to achieve her dream of walking on air ...
Mr and Mrs Hay worked in a circus and entertained everyone. Trouble began when their children grew older.
"--"USA Today" "The tale-telling is delicate, grave and almost evanescent . . . A voice at once sensuous and humorous, mellifluous and matter-of-fact."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Luminous and daring.
"What is revealed when you pull back the curtain of the greatest show on earth?"--