Celebrations of Curious Characters

by Ricky Jay

Book Overview

Celebrations of Curious Characters cracks open the personal vaults of Ricky Jay?raconteur, historian, and one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists?exposing a wonderful world of amusing and arcane knowledge. Adapted from his popular radio series ?Jay's Journal of the Air," Celebrations of Curious Characters features one-page anecdotes of mind-bending performers (limbless jugglers, banjo-picking birds, Anglo-Texan saxophone-playing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936365030
• ISBN13: 9781936365036
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.2" x 9.8"