Roustabout
Subtitle: a fiction
By: by Michelle Chalfoun.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction; Circus -- Fiction
Description: Some children dream of joining the circus. Mat dreams of escaping. Abandoned by her mother, molested by her stepfather, she sees through the glitter and fantasy of the bigtop to the grimy reality of the backlot. There Mat and the roustabout crew while away the deadening hours between rigging the tent and driving trucks with drugs, booze, and sex.