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The Aerialist
by Schmitt, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1585670707
- ISBN 13
- 9781585670703
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Overlook Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1585670707 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket; about new. ; Sewanee Writers' Series; Author's first novel .
Synopsis
From an authentic American voice, a stunning, gritty tale of a young man's retreat into the darkly glamorous world of the circus. Venice, Florida: On the edge of town sits the winter headquarters of a traveling circus. One day Gary, a drifter, signs up for a job as a bullhand with the circus. Everyone has heard of the ringmaster, the trapeze artist, and the clown, but Gary soon learns that the circus includes others as well: the 24-hour man, the first to arrive in a town to poster the way to the circus grounds; the bullhands who remove elephant excrement from under the animals' bodies; the butchers who distract the audience from the circus spectacle selling them cotton candy or lemonade; the animal people who care for the animals and keep to themselves. Gary instantly falls in love with this new life, riding the circus train from one town to the next in the odd hours of the night. This acclaimed debut tells of a hapless, magical existence-a life for which Richard Schmitt's characters have abandoned everything and nothing at all. In it, the circus unfolds as a wealth of human energy and ambition, and Schmitt emerges as a talent with a magical voice and a high-flying future.
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11107
- Title
- The Aerialist
- Author
- Schmitt, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1585670707
- ISBN 13
- 9781585670703
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- 1585670707, FICTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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