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| | Amazon.com: Roustabout: A Fiction: Books: Michelle Chalfoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | It's hard to know how to respond to such an incorruptibly innocent, exasperatingly childlike narrator; although it's impossible not to sympathize with her, it's also wearying to witness her doggy devotion and wait for her to grow out of it and into herself. |
 | | Here is a book that turns the child's dream of running away with the circus upside down, giving an account of the harsh life awaiting those who to live the dream which is, in reality, from the author's perspective, closer to a nightmare. |
 | | The narrator, Matty, a roustabout in a traveling circus, has been subjected to sexual abuse by her stepfather, and has witnessed countless other unkind acts, such as the deserting on the road of employees, and sometimes wives and children. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060927992/whyyourwifewo-20 (1279 words) |
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