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The Trapeze Artist

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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.

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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 desires, his family and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, and above all, the longing to break away, and to swing higher and higher...

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
99-10

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
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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 modern classic
Gay Times
An elegant, poignant and perceptive novel about growing up gay without the support of family, about falling and failing in love and about the freedom of eccentricity. A remarkable book
Sydney Morning Herald
Conveys both the challenges of coming out and the extraordinary art of an aerialist so convincingly
Sunday Times
PRAISE FOR MY SIDE OF THE STORY: 'Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world
Independent
A fresh and funny novel about growing up gay, with absolutely no help from a mad family. Davis gives his narrator a wonderfully wry outlook
Kate Saunders, The Times
The dialogue fizzes with savvy one-liners ... Davis's observations of the dysfunctions of family and school are as sharp as his prose is fresh, and his debut is intriguing, touching and entertaining
Time Out

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