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The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2013-04-23
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Fiction categories.
In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess.
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Meet the Tiger Queen—in this "extravagantly entertaining” novel based on the wild life of the famous animal trainer and circus celebrity (The Boston Globe). In the 1920s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and one of America’s most eccentric and unlikely celebrities. A tiny, curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and the greatest tiger trainer in history. She was fearlessly courageous. That was then. This is now. It’s 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to lose her job at Jungleland, a Southern California game park. Devastated by the loss of her cats, she looks back on her life, her five marriages, her regrets, and her triumphs. From her time as a mental institution–escapee; the notorious belly dancer, Little Egypt; and a crowd-roaring success with her one true love—a 550-pound Bengal tiger named Rajah—Mabel delivers an audacious confession of dark secrets, broken dreams, and escapades both comic and tragic. In The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough resurrects the life of a formidably independent, proudly scarred, naughtily ribald, and totally unapologetic star in “one of the most rollicking, good-time books of the year” (USA Today). “Mabel Stark developed an act so original, so daring, so brave, that it puts all the stupid human tricks on today’s reality shows to shame . . . a captivating portrait of a woman and a way of life that no longer exist.” —The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “Narrating with a saucy, bouncy verve, [Mabel Stark] recounts a life story that is one part John Irving, two parts blue movie.” —Time Out New York
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-01-21
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-21 with Fiction categories.
The fictional autobiography of the greatest female tiger trainer in history. Barely five feet tall, suicidally courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. Clad in her leather suits and married five times, she was the Mae West of tiger taming. In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular entertainment in America, Mabel Stark was the biggest attraction for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus. This vibrant and moving fictional autobiography begins in 1968. Mabel is turning eighty and is about to lose her job. Faced with the loss of her beloved cats, she looks back on her life, her escapades and tragedies, her love affairs with tigers and men. She confronts her darkest secret, her guilt at committing ‘the worst thing one person can do to another’. Now, with the end of her life in sight, there is one thing above all else she needs to do. Mabel wants to confess. Exuberant and inventive, THE FINAL CONFESSION OF MABEL STARK transports its readers to the carnival world of the Big Top, to an age before cinema and television, when circus performers were superstars.
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Fiction categories.
'Robert Hough's fictionalised big-top biog packs in the laughs and tears... Running away with the circus has never looked so good.' -- Elle Mabel was five-feet tall, brazen, suicidally courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric. In The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, Robert Hough has used the documents of her life to explore the mysteries of her heart. His vibrant and moving fictional autobiography starts in 1968. Mabel is just turning eighty and is about to lose her job. Faced with the loss of her cats, she looks back on her life, her escapades and her tragedies, her love affairs with tigers and men. She also confronts her darkest secret, her guilt at committing, 'the worst thing one person can do to another.' Now, with the end of her life in sight, there is one thing above all else she needs to do. Mabel Stark wants to confess. ' The story steams along like a Ringling train... It's impossible not to warm to Hough's plucky, masochistic adventuress, fleeing the wraths of insanity and across every state in the Union ; she's the sanest nutter the confession bug ever bit' Observer 'Hough has produced a work which captures the complexity and ambiguity of life' Times Literary Supplement 'A must read' Tatler 'Unputdownable... Mabel's story has grip and gumption along with bucket-loads of sadness and self-destructive glamour' Time Out 'As she swaggers through the book, Mabel's feisty character comes across as an undoubted star' Marie Claire 'Hough has found a voice and tone - prickly and pathetic, sly and wounded - that fits Mabel as snugly as her soiled leather suit' Economist 'Hilarious... It is frankly impossible not to fall in love with the heroine, a woman other women would like to be, and men would like to tame... This book is an uplifiting account of a life lived to the hilt... Captivating' Irish Examiner 'A splendid rumbustious recreation of her bizarre life that simply demands to be read' Woman and Home
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark Electronic Resource A Novel
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark Electronic Resource A Novel written by Robert Hough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. This is Hough's brilliant, highly acclaimed novelization of her fantastic life. Starting with her escape from a mental institution to begin her circus career as a burlesque dancer, Mabel's exquisitely voiced confession is a live wire of dark secrets, broken dreams, and comic escapades.
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2003
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Fiction categories.
A fictionalized autobiography tells about the life, loves, and adventures of Mabel Stark, the greatest female tiger trainer in circus history.
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Final Confession Of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Circus categories.
Fictionalized autobiography of the world's greatest tiger trainer, a star of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus in the 1910s and 1920s.
The Stowaway
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Author : Robert Hough
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2011-03-04
The Stowaway written by Robert Hough and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-04 with Fiction categories.
The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based on real-life events. The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways. He presents them to his officers, fully expecting that they’ll be put to work or else dropped off at the nearest port. Instead, he and his fellow Filipino crewmen watch in silent horror as the Romanians are cast overboard in a flimsy raft only to disappear beneath the ship’s wake. The Stowaway moves seamlessly between two storylines. Aboard the Maersk Dubai, Rodolfo and his crewmen must deal with the emotional trauma of what they’ve seen – as well as grapple with how to act on what they know. The atmosphere on the ship grows increasingly tense as fear, anxiety and paranoia grip the Filipino sailors. Trapped witnesses to a crime, they wonder whom they can trust and whether they themselves will meet with the same fate as the stowaways. Meanwhile, a nineteen-year-old Romanian named Daniel Pacepa heads out on a nail-biting adventure from Bucharest to Algeciras. Poor, brave and full of youthful indiscretion, Daniel is desperate to stow away on a ship and head to a better life in America. Along the way, he meets another Romanian named Gheorghe and together they perform cheap labour, pose as evangelical Christians and do whatever it takes to find their way to the Spanish port of Algeciras. Eventually the two stories merge when Daniel and Gheorghe sneak onto the ill-fated Maersk Dubai. One man is killed, the other discovered by Rodolfo. Once again, the Filipino crewmen find themselves faced with an excruciating moral dilemma. Do they risk their own personal safety to save the life of a complete stranger? All of the scenes involving the Filipino sailors are as close to the truth as Robert Hough could manage based on exhaustive interviews with the crewmen as well as on their letters and journals. Though Hough invented the Romanians’ land adventure, he based the story on considerable research, including interviews with Romanian-Canadians who had lived under the Ceausescu regime. Hough was widely praised for the deft way in which he mixes fact and fiction in The Stowaway. The critics were also unanimous in their admiration for the novel’s ability to seduce with suspense while at the same time posing profound issues for the reader to ponder. “This is a powerful novel that artfully combines the vivid, breathless pacing of the best adventure stories with the moral and metaphysical depth of the best literary fiction,” said Quill & Quire. And from the Vancouver Sun: “Harnessing the force of fiction and the weight of history, Hough has created a powerful, deeply human masterpiece out of tragedy and inhumanity.”
Jamrach S Menagerie
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Author : Carol Birch
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2011-02-03
Jamrach S Menagerie written by Carol Birch and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with Fiction categories.
Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London’s East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach – explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world’s strangest creatures – the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey – if he survives it – will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.