9781635572179-1635572177-Aerialists: Stories

Aerialists: Stories

ISBN-13: 9781635572179
ISBN-10: 1635572177
Edition: First Edition
Author: Mark Mayer
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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Book details

ISBN-13: 9781635572179
ISBN-10: 1635572177
Edition: First Edition
Author: Mark Mayer
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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Aerialists: Stories (ISBN-13: 9781635572179 and ISBN-10: 1635572177), written by authors Mark Mayer, was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Aerialists: Stories (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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"Mark Mayer writes with a humorous, wistful elegance. His stories are singular, as detached and intimate as dreaming." --Marilynne Robinson

Welcome to the sublime circus of Mark Mayer's Michener-Copernicus-winning debut, Aerialists, a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world.

Under the luminous tent of Mayer's prose, we see P.T. Barnum's caravan remade: A young misogynist finds a confidante in a cable-TV strongwoman. A realtor for the one percent invokes his inner murder clown. A skin-and-bones mathematician and his bearded wife plot revolution. A friendless peach farmer holds a funeral for a beloved elephant. And a model-train hobbyist prepares to throw his miniature world in the trash.

The circus has always been a collection of American exaggerations―the bold, the beautiful, the freakish, the big. Aerialists finds these myths living in the everyday. Mayer's deftly drawn characters illuminate these small-scale spectaculars, and their attempted acts of daring and feats of strength are rendered with humor, generosity, and uncommon grace.

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