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Chargement... The Circus of the Earth and the Air (1995)par Brooke Stevens
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I only bought this because John Barth blurbed on the cover. He lied! ( ) I probably should have abandoned this novel when I first began thinking that much of the writing was pretty klunky, but I have an odd fascination for the circus, and I was hoping that Stevens would make the book pay off in the end -- he doesn't. The book has an interesting fantasy premise -- Alex Barton's wife volunteers for a disappearing act at an itinerant circus performance, but the magician fails to make her reappear. Understandably distraught, Alex embarks on a quest to find his wife, but all traces of the circus have disappeared when he awakes in the morning. Eventually he gets wind of a secret circus organization on a remote island and embarks on a nightmarish journey. There are some interesting insights into the circus and performers, but Stevens obviously couldn't decide what kind of a novel he was writing, and the book goes off into multiple directions, leaving lots of loose ends. Maybe a good editor could have helped him make something of this first novel -- but I doubt it. Nothing I would recommend. Circus of the Earth and the Air- Brooke Stevens Absolutely riveting story of a man's search for his missing wife who disappears after volunteering to be part of a magic act in a mysterious circus. Brooke Stevens captures the feel of a nightmare you can't wake up from. A book that deserves to be widely read aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A woman volunteers for a circus magic trick...and vanishes. When her husband sets out to discover what has happened, he is tortured, tempted, and analyzed and eventually sheds his identity and gains a new one-as a tightrope walker whose strength is his vulnerability. Photographs. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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