Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show [electronic resource]
Delaney, Frank2010
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Frank Delaney's The Matchmaker of Kenmare.January 1932: Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben’s father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe’s magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben’s mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, “Find him and bring him back,” thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood.Interweaving a host of unforgettable creations—“King” Kelly, Venetia’s violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia’s mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist’s dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous decade.
Author:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
A Novel of Ireland ; 5
ISBN:
9781588369734
Language:
English
BRN:
4148438