Cathy Day
Auteur van The Circus in Winter
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Cathy Day grew up in Peru, Indiana, once the winter home of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. One of her great uncles was an elephant trainer; another claimed to be the world's fastest ticket taker. A former Bush Artist Fellow, she teaches at The College of New Jersey
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- Geboortedatum
- 1968
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Peru, Indiana, USA (birth)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - Opleiding
- DePauw University (BA)
University of Alabama (MFA | Creative Writing) - Beroepen
- professor (college)
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- #64,496
- Waardering
- 3.7
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- 14
- ISBNs
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Having undertaken an enormous amount of research on the history of the circus, the author incorporates fictional characters seemingly stuck in this town, in the circus, and/or in their sad lives. I just happened to have read Truevine by Beth Macy last year, which is mostly a history of the origins of the circus from freak show to animals and acrobatic acts. Much of the circus background was familiar to me from Macy's book, which interestingly also has a pervasive feeling of sadness, mostly because of how the circus abused people by marketing them as freaks. The difference between the two books is vast. While Circus author Cathy Day has obviously researched the topic as well as Truevine author Macy, I found myself caring about Day's characters, even the elephants. They seemed so real while Macy's characters, who really did exist, were lost in the forest of facts and never seemed three-dimensional.
Despite the depressing mood and unhappy characters, The Circus in Winter is uniquely and admirably written. Heartbreaking and dark. Not for everyone.… (meer)