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THE TRAPEZE ARTIST
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| By: |
Will Davis |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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£6.56 |
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£2.43 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408831627 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408831625 |
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| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
9 May, 2013 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis |
| Synopsis: |
As a schoolboy he secretly hated his drab, ordered world; now, at the age of forty, he is finally fleeing from a life he can no longer handle when he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he follows after it, determined to build a new home and family. The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, and above all, the longing to break away, and to swing higher and higher... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
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