Circus: A Novel

A tour de force of astonishing power and poetry,Circususes the mystic panorama of a traveling mud show as a metaphor for the neverending cycle of life. Dwarves and roustabouts, clowns and elephants, freaks and puppet shows, snakes and ringmasters, talking beasts and a single elusory beauty all parade before a silently observant child over the course of a single day, engaging him as well as the reader with humor, ribaldry and prophetic wisdom. A testament to the mystery of creation,Circuschallenges and inspires. To read it is to celebrate everything majestic and terrible about the world, the firmament and mankind?s precarious place in it.