MEMOIRS OF A SWORD SWALLOWER
Mannix, Daniel
ISBN 10: 0965046958 ISBN 13: 9780965046954
Editorial: V/Search Publications (1996), San Francisco, CA, 1996
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San Francisco, CA: V/Search Publications. Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (1996). First Printing. Paperback. Sm 4to., 128 pp., shelfwear . N° de ref. del artículo BOOKS339812
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<div><i>Memoirs of a Sword Swallower</i> is Daniel P. Mannix's autobiography as a sword-swallower with a traveling sideshow, illustrated with photos from the 30s and 40s taken by the author. An example of Classic Americana, this book offers a portrayal of a vanished world of working-class performance artists who earned a living by their unique bodies and imaginations. Stars include the Fat Lady, the human beanpole, the Ostrich man who ate broken glass, and many more. The "tricks" behind eating fire and swallowing swords are explicated with clarity and candor. This book will appeal to all who speculate about the outer limits of pain, pleasure, and revulsion. Mannix went on to become the supreme noir historian of the 20th century, penning <i>Those About to Die</i> (about the Roman games in the Colosseum), a biography of Aleister Crowley called <i>The Beast, The Hellfire Club</i> (about an upper-class British secret society), and many more. Mannix was sent a membership card from Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, although like Marcel Duchamp and Groucho Marx he was not a joiner, preferring to remain staunchly independent.</div>
Reseña del editor: Biography. Popular Culture. America's leading fire-eater recounts his life as a carny. Includes 58 photos from Mannix's private archive. A sympathetic and funny account of life with a carnival by a young man who impulsively joined up with one, mastered the elements of fire-eating and sword-swallowing in record time, and then rose, Horatio Alger-like, into the rarified company of neon-bulb swallowers...it's engrossing. -- The New Yorker.
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Título: MEMOIRS OF A SWORD SWALLOWER
Editorial: V/Search Publications (1996), San Francisco, CA
Año de publicación: 1996
Encuadernación: Paperback
Ilustrador: Black & White Photographs
Condición: Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET
Edición: First Printing.
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