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The Greatest Show: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) by Downs, Michael is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Greatest Show: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction) about?
Fire sweeps along the wall of a circus tent while inside thousands of people enjoy a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey matinee. Within minutes, flames consume the canvas and vast sections collapse, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. Inspired by the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, the interconnected stories in Michael Downs's The Greatest Show explore the aftermath of a disaster in a world of clowns, elephants, and childhood fantasies. In the opening story, Ania Liszak, a young Polis
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Downs, Michael
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807144527
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Short Stories, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.16 / 5 (46 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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