Final Confession of Mabel Stark: A Novel - Softcover

Hough, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802140432 ISBN 13: 9780802140432

Verlag: Grove Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. In the 1910s and ’20s, during the golden age of the big top, she was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America’s most eccentric celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and suicidally courageous. The Final Confession of Mabel Stark is Robert Hough’s brilliant, wit-studded novel of her fantastic life.

It is 1968. Mabel, nursing her most serious mauling yet, is just turning eighty and about to lose her job at Jungleland, a California game park. Devastated by the loss of her cats, she looks back on her life and her five husbands: the fifth–a cross-dresser whom she married without bothering to divorce the other four–would one day be tragically mauled by her one true love, her ferocious yet amorous 550-pound Bengal tiger, Rajah.

Starting with her escape from a mental institution to begin her circus career as a burlesque dancer, Mabel’s exquisitely voiced confession is a live wire of dark secrets, broken dreams, and comic escapades. It is a brilliant, exhilarating story of an America before television and movies, when the spectacle of the circus reigned and an unlikely woman captured the public imagination with her singular charm and audacity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802140432
• ISBN 13: 9780802140432
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 440
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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