Josser
The Secret Life of a Circus Girl
$39.50
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2000
Summary
JOSSER is the powerful and moving account of Oxford-educated Nell Stroud’s life in the circus. It is also the story of the people of the circus: the trapeze artists, the clowns, the high-wire acts, the grooms, the llamas, the elephants - their commitment and expertise, their hard, marginalised, miraculous lives.
Following a terrible riding accident which left her mother permanently brain-damaged, Nell ran away to the circus. What she found there was a life which became more real to he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860496950 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860496954 |
| Author: | Nell Stroud |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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She did something we all dream of doing. Her book is a brave attempt to keep this dream alive– Dea Birkett
A dream book - THE BOOKSELLER
She did something we all dream of doing. Her book is a brave attempt to keep this dream alive - Dea BirkettAbove all Stroud has written an elegy for the circus and its traditions…We are lucky to have the record of this book - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYJOSSER is a paean to the circus: an impassioned plea for understanding and tolerance of its performers, as well as an obsessive account of the daily hardships of life in the Big Top - TLSAbout The Author
Nell Stroud
Nell Stroud was born in Oxford in 1973. She studied English Literature at the university before leaving to join the circus. This is her first book.
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