Aerialists
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781635572179
Subjects: People with disabilities, fiction; Fiction, short stories (single author); Fiction, psychological
Description: Aerialists is a fiercely inventive collection of nine stories in which classic carnival characters become ordinary misfits seeking grandeur in a lonely world. 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.