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The Trapeze Artist
Will Davis
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Description for The Trapeze Artist
Paperback. An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
As a schoolboy he secretly hated his drab, ordered world; now, at the age of forty, he is finally fleeing from a life he can no longer handle when he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he follows after it, determined to build a new home and family. The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his ... Read more
As a schoolboy he secretly hated his drab, ordered world; now, at the age of forty, he is finally fleeing from a life he can no longer handle when he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he follows after it, determined to build a new home and family. The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408831625
SKU
V9781408831625
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Will Davis
Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in Highbury, London.
Reviews for The Trapeze Artist
An extraordinary tale of tragedy and failure in love, told with great panache
Edmund White
His best book yet
Evening Standard
The past produces the present, and the present turns fearlessly into the future. With a double flourish, everything becomes clear ... the closing scene is heart-stopping
Colin Greenland
Guardian
A page turning ... Read more
Edmund White
His best book yet
Evening Standard
The past produces the present, and the present turns fearlessly into the future. With a double flourish, everything becomes clear ... the closing scene is heart-stopping
Colin Greenland
Guardian
A page turning ... Read more