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Riverhead
February 2014
On Sale: February 6, 2014
464 pages
ISBN: 1594486093
EAN: 9781594486098
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Historical
A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set
against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and
aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair. On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret
Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn’t
quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still
has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it
attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of
nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful
and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair
becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a traveling troupe of actors that has descended on
the city, Cecily works in the Midway’s Chamber of Horrors,
where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine playing
Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off,
clinging protectively to a mysterious carpetbag, never
giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the
swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City,
changes everything, and the fair’s magic begins to take its
effect.
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