Cirkus: A Novel

By Patti Frazee

Book Overview

Published for the first time in paperback, this acclaimed novel is re-released at just the right time in our history. The immigrants of the Borsefsky Brothers Cirkus move through the American Midwest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555839355
• ISBN13: 9781555839352
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Alyson Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

This book is about our common humanity

The characters of this book are the side-show "freaks" in a circus traveling though the midwest of 1900 America. Patti Frazee has shown us that our wishes, dreams, problems, tradegies, make us all the same. Cojoined twins love different men, disapprove of one-anothers choices. What sisters haven't? Shanghai the dwarf, has a terrible childhood and carries a burdensome secret. Which of us doesn't have a tale of woe? Mariana and her husband Jacob are living through betrayal and loss. Neither of them knows how to fix it. Sound familiar? Once the strangness of these characters is stripped away this is a book about life and the toll it takes on us as we live it. I highly recommend it. And I am looking forward to her next book.

The best book of the year!

This is an amazing book! The author's style enabled me to join the cirkus myself with every page I turned. There is a character for everyone to identify with which leaves you cheering until the very end. I couldn't put it down. By far one of the best reads ever!

You won't be able to put it down!!

This is an amazing novel!!! The more you read, the more intense it gets. The author describes these characters so vividly that they become real. You will love it.