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Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a "corporate clown," trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.
Nita vive nelle strade pericolose di Baloneytown, tra tossici, agenti di polizia, alternativi, artisti, personaggi folli e cani randagi. Per campare fa il clown, fa la Clown Girl, ma non è un ripiego, un mezzo per sbarcare il lunario, è la sua vera passione, il suo grande sogno: un’aspirazione e un talento, una forma d’arte sublime e difficile, drammaticamente sospesa tra lo scherno e la malinconia. In un mondo che non capisce le sue battute e che in un nobile pagliaccio vede solo un buffone. Nita è fidanzata con Rex Galore, il bel clown, è perdutamente innamorata di lui, ma Rex non si fa vedere, le telefona ogni tanto dall’Università dello Spettacolo dove è andato con i soldi che lei le manda. Ma il desiderio è troppo e la distanza incolmabile, e ogni giorno Nita deve inventare qualcosa, legare i palloncini in forme di animali per divertire un’orda di bambini molesti e chiassosi, soddisfare il feticismo di un cliente particolare, intrattenere i dipendenti di un’azienda con spettacoli al limite della prostituzione, guardarsi da un giovane poliziotto dolce e comprensivo, attento e appassionato, che un po’ le fa battere il cuore... E in tutto questo due fedeli compagni di vita sono improvvisamente scomparsi, il cane adorato e Plucky, la gallina di gomma collega di tante avventure... Nita la Clown Girl è una martire appassionata e un’irresistibile commediante, poetica come Charlot, sarcastica quanto Groucho Marx, indignata come Holden Caulfield. Le sue avventure sono puro movimento frenetico, una esilarante, irresistibile immersione nei sogni della giovinezza, nella follia della passione, nella sorpresa continua di un cambio di scena, nell’attesa di un gesto imprevisto, di un ultimo, improvviso, scroscio di applausi. «Vi presento il libro della mia peggiore nemica, o “rivale”, per dirla in maniera piú elegante: ma viva la sincerità. [...] Non sto compiendo un’opera pia né voglio adulare nessuno: sono soltanto sincero. Tra gli scrittori esiste una grande rivalità, ma avere avversari validi come Monica Drake è una manna dal cielo. Clown Girl non è solo un grande libro, è unico, un mondo a sé. Averne, di nemici di cosí gran talento». Chuck Palahniuk «Il ritmo della narrazione è anfetaminico e Nita, la Clown Girl, emerge come un personaggio memorabile, un testimone di quanto le emozioni possano essere al tempo stesso ridicole e sublimi». Publishers Weekly «La parola “unico” è sicuramente abusata ma credo che per una volta sia giustificata: questo romanzo è diverso da qualunque altro, e nel senso migliore. Un esordio davvero esaltante». Kevin Canty «Nita è il clown piú divertente e commovente dai tempi di Smokey Robinson». Entertainment Weekly «Le pagine di Clown Girl rilasciano l’odore dell’asfalto cotto dal sole, di cannella e acquaragia, birra e frutta, urina e sudore. Un debutto brillante e coinvolgente». Philadelphia Weekly «Clown Girl è tra i romanzi recenti piú raffinati e originali, il risultato di anni di lavoro di una talentuosa scrittrice di Portland». Seattle Times
In the summer of 1976, Mary Flynn ran away from home and joined the circus. Follow her down the road as she learns a whole new life as a circus clown, makes friends with circus folks, learns to cope with life on the road, and falls in love along the way. Note: This novel is not a children's book; it contains strong language and adult situations.
Step right up for the Greatest Book on Earth! For more than 70 years, Clowns International—the oldest established clowning organization—has been painting the faces of its members on eggs. Each one is a record of a clown's unique identity, preserving the unwritten rule that no clown should copy another's look. This mesmerizing volume collects more than 150 of these portraits, from 1946 to the modern day, accompanied by short personal histories of many of the clowns. Here are Tricky Nicky, Taffy, Bobo, Sammy Sunshine, the legendary Emmett Kelly, and Jolly Jack, clowning since 1977 and still performing today with a penguin puppet named Biscuit. A treasure just like the eggs it enshrines, The Clown Egg Register is an extraordinary archive of images and lives of the men and women behind the make-up.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the “dangerously bright” alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the “Racial Holy War” to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology, but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, “bloviating and farting his way” through the campaign, “saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next.” For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It offers the riveting, surreal, unique, and essential experience of seeing the future in hindsight. “Scathing . . . What keeps the pages turning in this so freshly familiar story line is the vivid observation and original turns of phrase.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Alan Clay's new book on clown, Angels can Fly, promises a mix of fiction, following the adventures of ten clown characters, some personal clown anecdotes, a total of 50 practical clown exercises, and some theory on the nature of modern clown.
Shalimar the Clown is a masterpiece from one of our greatest writers, a dazzling novel that brings together the fiercest passions of the heart and the gravest conflicts of our time into an astonishingly powerful, all-encompassing story. Max Ophuls’ memorable life ends violently in Los Angeles in 1993 when he is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar the Clown. At first the crime seems to be politically motivated—Ophuls was previously ambassador to India, and later US counterterrorism chief—but it is much more. Ophuls is a giant, an architect of the modern world: a Resistance hero and best-selling author, brilliant economist and clandestine US intelligence official. But it is as Ambassador to India that the seeds of his demise are planted, thanks to another of his great roles—irresistible lover. Visiting the Kashmiri village of Pachigam, Ophuls lures an impossibly beautiful dancer, the ambitious (and willing) Boonyi Kaul, away from her husband, and installs her as his mistress in Delhi. But their affair cannot be kept secret, and when Boonyi returns home, disgraced and obese, it seems that all she has waiting for her is the inevitable revenge of her husband: Noman Sher Noman, Shalimar the Clown. He was an acrobat and tightrope walker in their village’s traditional theatrical troupe; but soon Shalimar is trained as a militant in Kashmir’s increasingly brutal insurrection, and eventually becomes a terrorist with a global remit and a deeply personal mission of vengeance. In this stunningly rich book everything is connected, and everyone is a part of everyone else. A powerful love story, intensely political and historically informed, Shalimar the Clown is also profoundly human, an involving story of people’s lives, desires and crises, as well as—in typical Rushdie fashion—a magical tale where the dead speak and the future can be foreseen.
Well-versed in the mating habits of captive animals, Sarah, who studies animal behavior at the zoo, longs to have a baby, while her loyal friends, each dealing with their own parenting issues, discover that the families they forge through shared experience are as important as those inherited through birth.
A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.