Mystery Plays: The American One-Ring Revival Minstrel Show & Free CircusGoatsongThe Case of the Three Comedians

ISBN-13: 9780595404230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 324 str.

Russell Fox

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"A work that deserves to be taken seriously.the work of a man with a gift for language and a love of ideas.Fox is a writer who bears watching."
-Larry McGinn
CIRCUS Review
The Syracuse Post Standard

"THE AMERICAN ONE-RING REVIVAL
MINSTREL SHOW & FREE CIRCUS"
The Ringmaster of a failing tent show, disregarding the hectoring warnings of two talking clowns, persists in trying to make sense out of a circus that seems cursed-after his father and stepdaughter, now married, crash the proceedings.

"GOATSONG "
A hitchhiker breaks into a darkened bible-belt diner, after hours, and finds it to be haunted by an abnormally Catholic waitress.

"THE CASE OF THE THREE COMEDIANS "
Inspector Virgil Rafferty, after a disciplinary transfer to the Buffalo Public Library, stumbles into a mystery that will send him headlong into a menagerie of surgical monstrosities, plunge him into the poisonous wastes of Lake Erie and, ultimately, dump him at the brink of the terrible punchline of the Cosmic Joke. "