- Circus performers, Fiction, Mediums, Swindlers and swindling
Stanton Carlisle, employed as a carny at a travelling circus watches their freak-show geek - an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision - and wonders how a man could fall so low.
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Classical in form, grave, bleak and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- William Lindsay Gresham
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, Festa Verlag, Rinehart and Co.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781681376103
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