| Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus Contributor(s): Knaebel, Nathaniel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0786713321 ISBN-13: 9780786713325 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 Annotation: A collection of the finest literature and the most absorbing testimonials and first-person accounts captures all of the spectacle and sensation of carnivals, sideshows and circuses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Circus - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004304841 |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.98" W x 8.94" (0.99 lbs) 338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Everyone loves a carnival, whether it's the Big Top or a traveling midway kicking up dust. These roving extravaganzas are as amusing as they are mysterious and as innocent as they are sordid. Step Right Up is a one-of-a-kind anthology that collects the finest literature and the most absorbing first-person accounts about carnivals, sideshows, and the circus, capturing all of the spectacle and sensation of this unusual and treasured tradition. A colorful assortment of characters populate the fairgrounds and circus tents of this unique collection from circus legends like P. T. Barnum and Otis Jordan the Frog Prince to a motley crew of ride monkeys and rubes. Step Right Up takes the reader everywhere from a small village in Romania to the streets of Coney Island and offers everything from Fred Rosen's account of the scandalous demise of Grady Lobster Boy Stiles Jr. to imaginative fiction like Michael Chabon's macabre take on the origin of clowns. The bizarre romance and mystery of the world's oldest and oddest traveling institution come to life in selections from Katherine Dunn, Kevin Baker, Jim Tully, Flannery O'Connor, Lee Durkee, Robert Hough, Michael Chabon, Fred Rosen, Susan Dickinson, Joseph Michell, Edora Welty, and Ellen Hunnicut. |