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Aerialists

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Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Mayer, Mark. (Verfasser)
Verfasserangabe: Mark Mayer.
Medienkennzeichen: Overdrive
Jahr: 2019.
Mediengruppe: Overdrive
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"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." —Marilynne Robinson Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists , a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash. The circus has always been a collection of American exaggerations-the bold, the beautiful, the freakish, the big. Aerialists finds these myths living in the everyday. Mayer's deftly drawn characters illuminate these small-scale spectaculars, and their attempted acts of daring and feats of strength are rendered with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace.

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Verfasser: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Mayer, Mark. (Verfasser)
Verfasserangabe: Mark Mayer.
Medienkennzeichen: Overdrive
Jahr: 2019.
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ISBN: 9781635572162
Beschreibung: 1 online resource
Schlagwörter: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Literature.; Short Stories.
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Mediengruppe: Overdrive