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The aerialist
- Title
- The aerialist / a novel by Richard Schmitt.
- Author
- Schmitt, Richard.
- Publication
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.C5166 A68 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 295 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "On the edge of the gritty town of Venice, Florida, lie the winterquarters - a circus in repose. One day Gary - who hasn't cared much what sort of job he's had - finds himself signing on as a circus hand.".
- "Everyone has seen or heard of the wirewalker, the trapeze artist, and the clown, but there are others: the "twenty-four-hour man" who arrives in a town first to post arrows that point the way to the lot; the "bullhands" who remove the elephants' excrement out from under their tumultuous bodies; the "butchers" who distract the audience from the wonders on stage so that they might purchase cotton candy or a plastic ray-gun; the "animal people" who tend to the animals and keep to themselves.
- Gary becomes instantly familiar with this new life - riding in the circus train from one town to the next in the odd hours of the night. It is a life for which he has abandoned everything and nothing at all."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Sewanee writers' series
- Uniform Title
- Sewanee writers' series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- ISBN
- 1585670707
- LCCN
- 00058489
- OCLC
- ocm44613136
- SCSB-4059097
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries