num_pages: 288
description: From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an elephant can change the course of a man's life-or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show's manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners.In her astonishing debut, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives, bringing the greatest show on earth to the page.
language: English
title: The Circus In Winter
titlecomplete: The Circus In Winter
genres: Short Stories, Americana, Historical, Historical Fiction, Animals, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1535
places: Indiana
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: The Story Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial