Circus

A tour de force of astonishing power and poetry <I>Circus</I> uses the mystic panorama of a traveling mud show as a metaphor for the neverending cycle of life. Dwarves and roustabouts clowns and elephants freaks and puppet shows snakes and ringmasters talking beasts and a single elusory beauty all parade before a silently observant child over the course of a single day engaging him as well as the reader with humor ribaldry and prophetic wisdom.</p> <p>A testament to the mystery of creation <I>Circus</I> challenges and inspires. To read it is to celebrate everything majestic and terrible about the world the firmament and mankind's precarious place in it. </p>