Circus in Winter

Name: Circus in Winter
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ISBN: 9780156032025

ISBN-10: 0156032023

ISBN-13: 9780156032025

Edition: N/A

Authors: Cathy Day

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 7/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




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