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Author Fontaine, Tessa, author.

Title The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY FONTAINE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY FONTAINE, TESSA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B Fontaine, Tessa    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  791.3092 FONTAINE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-FONTAINE FON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 FONTAINE, TES    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG FONTAINE, TESSA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B FONTAINE TESSA F    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B FONTAINE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
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.
Subject 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/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780374158378 (cloth)
0374158371 (cloth)
9780374717025 (ebook)
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