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The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts
- Title
- The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
- Author
- Fontaine, Tessa
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- x, 366 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Circus performers
- Women circus performers
- Biography
- Autobiographies
- United States
- World of Wonders (Sideshow)
- PERFORMING ARTS / Circus
- Circus performers > United States > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Sideshows > United States
- Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography
- Women circus performers > United States > Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Fontaine, Tessa
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Contents
- Prologue: The trick is there is no trick -- The architecture of a wave -- The snake charmer -- Human history -- Open the gates -- The dragon -- Snickers T. Clown -- Cake -- Hair ingredients -- Let's us have fun -- The moon is apple pie -- The softest skin of anyone in the entire world -- Daughters -- Mud -- And the low sky opens -- The departure -- Emergency -- Fresh meat -- The Titanic was child's play -- Monsters -- Premium footlong corn dogs -- Where your name is writ -- Cash money -- Wildewoman -- The sword swallower -- The animal undone -- Sounds past the noises -- Behind the night's dress -- Christmas fish -- Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song -- Normalaphobia -- Invisibilia -- Bloodlust -- The heroes -- Electricity -- By ship into the sea -- Twinklers -- The great reveal -- Out of the mist -- Epilogue: Where you will float electric.
- Call Number
- MWFB 18-3099
- ISBN
- 9780374158378
- 0374158371
- LCCN
- 2017038360
- OCLC
- 1004935206
- Author
- Fontaine, Tessa, author.
- Title
- The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- MWFB 18-3099