Victoria's life is covered in fragments from age six to nineteen, at which point her circus career (and almost her life) ends in Los Angeles when she is hurled from a performing elephant before a capacity crowd teeming with Hollywood movie stars. Victoria was mostly educated in a series of Catholic boarding schools. She recounts starting first grade at a rigid Kentucky-based academy, haunted by the mortal outcries of a crazed nun. Thereafter, the author sets the stage and charts a journey that takes her audience on a remarkable whistle-stop tour. The audience enters the big top, not by way of the marquee, but rather through the back yard of the circus lot. While Victoria recalls the dreams and blunders of her family, she manages to interweave the bumpy path of her own personal struggles. The miracle that follows is just as magical as the spirit of the circus itself. Victoria Cristiani Rossi's well-written memoir takes readers into what it was like growing up in the world's most honored circus family. Her most interesting story provides a rare inside look at this multitalented group of artists. Compelling I could not put it down! -Fred D. Pfening Jr., Editor of Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society
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Victoria B. Cristiani Rossi grew up in a circus as a daughter of the famous Cristiani circus family, one-time stars of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband and her beloved Yorkshire Terrier, Precha.
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Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G0595409172I4N00
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover with an "opened-but-never-read" look & feel. I am 90% certain that the signature on the false title page is Ms. Rossi's, but cannot be certain. Thus; offered & priced as not being signed by the author. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 22012492
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Anbieter: James Lasseter, Jr, Brooksville, FL, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author on the half title page as follows: "To Linda Carson,/ Thank you so/much for your/interest in Spangles./ Victoria B. Christiani Rossi/ Feb. 20, 08/". 241 pages, an introduction and a prologue, 23 chapters, an epilogue and a page about the author. Interior of book is clean and binding is tight. A nice, author signed, copy. Signed By the Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0006847
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