The Ordinary Acrobat: A Journey into the Wondrous World of the Circus, Past and Present
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00957T5A0
Publish date: February 26th 2013
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
This book "The Ordinary Acrobat", took me to a wondrous world of circus acrobats. It uncovers the realities of everyday life at the circus with both it's ups and downs. After reading this book I am convinced however that the life of many such acrobats is just as wild and exiting as it seems from the...
This book should have decided early on what it should have been. This should have been either a memoir about the author's introduction to circus life and culture. But it also wanted to be a book about circus history which is not the same as circus culture which is really where this book lost me.I am...