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Lives of the Circus Animals - A Novel - cover

Lives of the Circus Animals - A Novel

Christopher Bram

Verlag: HarperCollins e-books

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Lives of the Circus Animals is a brilliant new comedy about New York theater people: actors, writers, personal assistants, and a drama critic for the New York Times. They are male, female, straight, gay, in love with their work or in love with each other, and one of them, British star Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet of his generation," is famous.Award-winning novelist Christopher Bram gives us ten days and nights in this small-town world in the heart of a big city, an engaging novel that is also a satiric celebration of the quest for sanity in the face of those two impostors, success and failure.
Verfügbar seit: 13.10.2009.
Drucklänge: 352 Seiten.

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