Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Dk Pub
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780789426611
Traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece through their evolution in eighteenth-century Europe to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen.
Author : Bil Keane
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 1982-02-12
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ISBN : 9780449141458
Author : Marguerite Henry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481442589
Originally published: Chicago: Rand McNally, c1951.
Author : Katherine Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307794482
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
Author : Will Elliott
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 073049652X
Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.
Author : Sreedharan Champad
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1622127668
An Album of Indian Big Tops, chronicling the circus industry in India from 1880 to 2010, was written by Sreedharan Champad, a flying trapeze artist, journalist, story writer, novelist, film script writer, and circus historian. His book reveals the history of Indian circus life and art, as well as details about the industry. He directly contacted the most prominent people in the Indian circus from the 1950s onward and has researched all available records, making this a lifetime achievement. It took him more than fifty years to complete this history about a "dying art," and no one before has attempted such a book. The book was inspired because, "I had spent my school vacations in circus tents in my boyhood, because some of my close relatives were circus artists living in circus tents."
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409015335
'Raunchy, raucous...a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia. **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Author : Bil Keane
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780449148112
The latest "Family Circus" collection by the award-winning cartoonist features a nude on the cover, as well as other surprising, and humorous, strips inside. Original.
Author : Claire Keane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698401794
Fresh from her work on Frozen and Tangled, Claire Keane brings her legendary talent to her debut picture book about finding the right present for someone you love. Celeste wants to give her mother something special—but what? Her search takes her up into the skies, where she meets the stars, the moon and the sun, but she still doesn’t find the heartfelt present she’s been looking for. At the end of her journey, Celeste sees it—the perfect gift! Chosen with care and wrapped with love, it’s just what Celeste was hoping to find. In this story about finding unexpected inspiration and giving from the heart, Claire Keane invites readers on a magical journey through the clouds. The result is a visually stunning book that really and truly is the perfect gift.
Author : Yeon-Soo Kim
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0838756107
This book is an examination of the use of the family album in contemporary Spanish culture. Through the analysis of films, narratives, painting, and a photographic exhibition produced from the end of Franco's dictatorship to the present, Kim interrogates how the family album serves as a critical instrument to reflect on the treatment of the past in contemporary Spain, the recuperation of repressed identities, nostalgia for collective memory symptomatic of the cultural discontent with the erosion of a national boundary due to globalization and the increasing claim of diversity, and ethical concerns for immigration. This study explores a broad range of works by canonical as well as less studied writers and artists, including Juan Goytisolo, Carlos Saura, and Marta Balletbo-Coll. Yeon-Soo Kim is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University.
