| Vaudeville! Contributor(s): Soucy, Gaetan (Author) |
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ISBN: 088784782X ISBN-13: 9780887847820 Publisher: House of Anansi Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: In Vaudeville! no one is who he or she appears, including Xavier, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary. After Xavier falls into a hole, he suffers bizarre humiliations and eventually loses his job. Soon he and his singing frog are hired to perform in a vaudeville show in which violence and ugliness blend like a cartooni with comedy and music. Vaudeville!, Gaé tan Soucy's fascinating tableau, dares us to look into the darkest sides of the human experience. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.18" W x 7.96" (1.07 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ga tan Soucy sets this acclaimed novel in a parallel-universe New York, just before the great stock market crash of 1929. Xavier X. Mortanse is an apprentice demolition worker who believes he's an immigrant from Hungary. By the time Xavier finds a singing frog in a miniature coffin, tries his luck on the vaudeville stage, and upsets a grandmaster chess match, Soucy has seduced readers into a netherworld of unforgettable eccentrics that riffs on chaos, corruption, and the surprising light of the human spirit. |