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The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts
- Author
- Fontaine, Tessa, author.
- Title
- The electric woman : a memoir in death-defying acts / Tessa Fontaine.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. ©2018
- Description
- x, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
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- 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 headings
- Fontaine, Tessa. Fontaine, Tessa. World of Wonders (Sideshow) World of Wonders (Sideshow.) Sideshows--United States. Circus performers--United States--Biography. Women circus performers--United States--Biography. Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography. Women circus performers United States Biography. Mothers and daughters United States Biography. Circus performers United States Biography.
- Genre heading
- Autobiographies. Nonfiction. Autobiographies. Autobiographies. Biography.
- ISBN
- 9780374158378 hardcover 0374158371 hardcover 9780374717025 electronic book