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Step Right Up - by Nathaniel Knaebel (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • Everyone loves a carnival, whether it's the Big Top or a traveling midway kicking up dust.
  • About the Author: Nathaniel Knaebel grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Oberlin College in 1999.
  • 338 Pages
  • Performing Arts, Circus

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About the Book



A collection of the finest literature and the most absorbing testimonials and first-person accounts captures all of the spectacle and sensation of carnivals, sideshows and circuses.



Book Synopsis



Everyone loves a carnival, whether it's the Big Top or a traveling midway kicking up dust. These roving extravaganzas are as amusing as they are mysterious and as innocent as they are sordid. Step Right Up is a one-of-a-kind anthology that collects the finest literature and the most absorbing first-person accounts about carnivals, sideshows, and the circus, capturing all of the spectacle and sensation of this unusual and treasured tradition. A colorful assortment of characters populate the fairgrounds and circus tents of this unique collection from circus legends like P. T. Barnum and Otis Jordan the Frog Prince to a motley crew of ride monkeys and rubes. Step Right Up takes the reader everywhere from a small village in Romania to the streets of Coney Island and offers everything from Fred Rosen's account of the scandalous demise of Grady "Lobster Boy" Stiles Jr. to imaginative fiction like Michael Chabon's macabre take on the origin of clowns. The bizarre romance and mystery of the world's oldest and oddest traveling institution come to life in selections from Katherine Dunn, Kevin Baker, Jim Tully, Flannery O'Connor, Lee Durkee, Robert Hough, Michael Chabon, Fred Rosen, Susan Dickinson, Joseph Michell, Edora Welty, and Ellen Hunnicut.



About the Author



Nathaniel Knaebel grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated from Oberlin College in 1999. He is an assistant editor at the Avalon Publishing Group and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.94 Inches (H) x 5.98 Inches (W) x .87 Inches (D)
Weight: .99 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Circus
Genre: Performing Arts
Number of Pages: 338
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Nathaniel Knaebel
Language: English
Street Date: April 15, 2004
TCIN: 85121545
UPC: 9780786713325
Item Number (DPCI): 247-54-0085
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.87 inches length x 5.98 inches width x 8.94 inches height
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