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Fontaine, Tessa.
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World of Wonders (Sideshow)
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Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
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Fontaine, Tessa.
Fontaine, Tessa.
World of Wonders (Sideshow)
Sideshows -- United States.
Circus performers -- United States -- Biography.
Women circus performers -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
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The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
by
Fontaine, Tessa.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Call #:
791.3092 F678e
Subjects
Fontaine, Tessa.
World of Wonders (Sideshow)
Sideshows
--
United
States
.
Circus
performers
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Women
circus
performers
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
Mothers and daughters
--
United
States
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9780374158378
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 366 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Prologue: The trick is there is no trick
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The architecture of a wave
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The snake charmer
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Human history
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Open the gates
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The dragon
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Snickers T. Clown
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Cake
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Hair ingredients
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Let's us have fun
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The moon is apple pie
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The softest skin of anyone in the entire world
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Daughters
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Mud
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And the low sky opens
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The departure
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Emergency
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Fresh meat
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The Titanic was child's play
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Monsters
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Premium footlong corn dogs
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Where your name is writ
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Cash money
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Wildewoman
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The sword swallower
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The animal undone
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Sounds past the noises
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Behind the night's dress
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Christmas fish
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Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song
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Normalaphobia
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Invisibilia
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Bloodlust
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The heroes
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Electricity
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By ship into the sea
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Twinklers
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The great reveal
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Out of the mist
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Epilogue: Where you will float electric.
Summary:
Tessa Fontaines astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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