Mystery Plays

The American One-Ring Revival Minstrel Show & Free CircusGoatsongThe Case of the Three Comedians

von Russell Fox

324 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"A work that deserves to be taken seriously.the work of a man with a gift for language and a love of ideas.Fox is a writer who bears watching."-Larry McGinnCIRCUS ReviewThe Syracuse Post Standard THE AMERICAN ONE-RING REVIVALMINSTREL SHOW & FREE CIRCUSThe Ringmaster of a failing tent show, disregarding the hectoring warnings of two talking clowns, persists in trying to make sense out of a circus that seems cursed-after his father and stepdaughter, now married, crash the proceedings.GOATSONG A hitchhiker breaks into a darkened bible-belt diner, after hours, and finds it to be haunted by an abnormally Catholic waitress. THE CASE OF THE THREE COMEDIANS Inspector Virgil Rafferty, after a disciplinary transfer to the Buffalo Public Library, stumbles into a mystery that will send him headlong into a menagerie of surgical monstrosities, plunge him into the poisonous wastes of Lake Erie and, ultimately, dump him at the brink of the terrible punchline of the Cosmic Joke.

• Reihe: iUniverse
• ISBN: 9780595678020
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.07.2006
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Westbow Press