Displaying 1 of 1 2018 Format: Book Author: Fontaine, Tessa, author. Title: The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. ©2018 Description: x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: "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"--Amazon.com. 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. Genre: Autobiographies. Contents: Prologue: The trick is there is no trick -- The architecture of a wave -- The snake charmer -- Human history -- Open the gates -- The dragon -- Snickers T. Clown -- Cake -- Hair ingredients -- Let's us have fun -- The moon is apple pie -- The softest skin of anyone in the entire world -- Daughters -- Mud -- And the low sky opens -- The departure -- Emergency -- Fresh meat -- The Titanic was child's play -- Monsters -- Premium footlong corn dogs -- Where your name is writ -- Cash money -- Wildewoman -- The sword swallower -- The animal undone -- Sounds past the noises -- Behind the night's dress -- Christmas fish -- Dr. Frankenstein's hushed blood love song -- Normalaphobia -- Invisibilia -- Bloodlust -- The heroes -- Electricity -- By ship into the sea -- Twinklers -- The great reveal -- Out of the mist -- Epilogue: Where you will float electric. LCCN: 2017038360 ISBN: 9780374158378 0374158371 9780374158378 0374158371 Other Number: 1004935206 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 721331 # Local items in: 3 # System items in: 3 Call Number: BIO Fontaine Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
