The Bounce
Betsy Tobin(Author)
Headline Review (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-7472-6496-5 (ISBN)
Description
THE BOUNCE is a masterpiece of lion-taming, cross-dressing, lost mothers and lost innocence, set in the glamorous and squalid world of the Victorian circus. Nineteen-year-old Nathan sails the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him. He takes a job as a lion-tamer in a circus south of the Thames, where he meets Lulu, a celebrated rope-dancer with secrets; Nan, the orange-girl, haunted by her dead son and his menacing father; Queen, the lion on whom everything rests, and, at last, his mother - or is she his mother, after all? Like BONE HOUSE, THE BOUNCE is pacy, darkly Gothic and powerfully evocative, but its setting and the characters elevate it to a new level: literary historical fiction at its spine-tingling, compelling best.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 18 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 196 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7472-6496-5 (9780747264965)
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Person
Betsy Tobin was born in the American Midwest and emigrated to England in 1989. A journalist, playwright and prize-winning short story author, Betsy lives in London with her husband and four children. THE BOUNCE is her second novel; her first, the acclaimed BONE HOUSE, is also published by Review.