The Trapeze Artist
Published on 10. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-4088-2304-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions and tempers of circus life, and above all, the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher...
Reviews / Votes
An extraordinary tale of tragedy and failure in love, told with great panache * <B>Edmund White</B> * His best book yet * <B><I>Evening Standard</B></I> * Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world * <B><I>Independent on Sunday</I> on <I>My Side of the Story</I></B> * A fresh and funny novel about growing up gay, with absolutely no help from a mad family. Davis gives his narrator a wonderfully wry outlook * <B>Kate Saunders, <I>The Times</I></B> * The dialogue fizzes with savvy one-liners ... Davis's observations of the dysfunctions of family and school are as sharp as his prose is fresh, and his debut is intriguing, touching and entertaining * <I><B>Time Out</B></I> * As a performance, Will Davis's third novel, about a man who has a nervous breakdown and runs away with the circus, is distinctive ... With a double flourish, everything becomes clear ... the closing scene is heart-stopping * <I><B>Guardian</I></B> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
463 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-2304-0 (9781408823040)
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Will Davis
The Trapeze Artist
E-Book
05/2012
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€8.49
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Person
Will Davis is the author of two novels, My Side of the Story, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope), tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in Highbury, London.