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The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
Van Pelt Library GV1834.72.F66 A3 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fontaine, Tessa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fontaine, Tessa.
- World of Wonders (Sideshow).
- World of Wonders (Sideshow.).
- Sideshows--United States.
- Sideshows.
- Circus performers--United States--Biography.
- Circus performers.
- Women circus performers--United States--Biography.
- Women circus performers.
- Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography.
- Mothers and daughters.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Fontaine, Tessa.
- World of Wonders (Sideshow.).
- Women circus performers--United States--Biography.
- Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography.
- Circus performers--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother"--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The trick is there is no trick
- The architecture of a wave
- The snake charmer
- Human history
- Open the gates
- The dragon
- Snickers T. Clown
- Cake
- Hair ingredients
- Let's us have fun
- The moon is apple pie
- The softest skin of anyone in the entire world
- Daughters
- Mud
- And the low sky opens
- The departure
- Emergency
- Fresh meat
- The Titanic was child's play
- Monsters
- Premium footlong corn dogs
- Where your name is writ
- Cash money
- Wildewoman
- The sword swallower
- The animal undone
- Sounds past the noises
- Behind the night's dress
- Christmas fish
- Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song
- Normalaphobia
- Invisibilia
- Bloodlust
- The heroes
- Electricity
- By ship into the sea
- Twinklers
- The great reveal
- Out of the mist
- Epilogue: Where you will float electric.
- ISBN:
- 9780374158378
- 0374158371
- OCLC:
- 1004935206
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