Aerialists : stories /
Mayer, Mark, 1984-
Aerialists : stories / Mark Mayer. - 290 pages; 22 cm
Strongwoman ; Aerialists ; The evasive magnolio ; Twin ; The wilderness act ; The April thief ; Solidarity forever ; The clown ; The ringmaster.
Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash.
9781635572179 1635572177
2018006312
Carnival--Fiction.
Short stories.
Aerialists : stories / Mark Mayer. - 290 pages; 22 cm
Strongwoman ; Aerialists ; The evasive magnolio ; Twin ; The wilderness act ; The April thief ; Solidarity forever ; The clown ; The ringmaster.
Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash.
9781635572179 1635572177
2018006312
Carnival--Fiction.
Short stories.