Circus

About the Book

A tour de force of astonishing power and poetry, Circus 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.

A testament to the mystery of creation, Circus 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.

About the Author

Frederic Weinstein, born in 1925, published short stories in the ?little magazines? of the 1940?s and 1950?s, wrote radio plays for Canadian Broadcasting and completed a full-length play, The Sparrow and the King, while pursuing an academic career. Later, he devoted himself full-time to the writing of Circus.