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Tonic and balm : a novel / Stephanie Allen.
Van Pelt Library PS3601.L436 T66 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Stephanie, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine shows.
- History.
- Pennsylvania--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Pennsylvania.
- Medicine shows--Fiction.
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Local Subjects:
- Medicine shows.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- FICTION / African American / General.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : Shade Mountain Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "It's 1919, and Doc Bell's Miracles and Mirth Medicine Show is on the road, performing variety acts onstage and peddling miracle 'cures' to the gullible. The show's been around for decades, but now it's struggling to stay afloat amid internal discord and dwindling sales. Set against a backdrop of rural poverty and a wave of anti-black violence, Tonic and balm examines the tenuous solidarity and shifting alliances of people on the fringes of society"--Page 4 of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780998463438
- 0998463434
- OCLC:
- 1057306627
- Publisher Number:
- 99980375227
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