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Can I read Vaudeville! on EtoBox?
Vaudeville! by Gaétan Soucy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Vaudeville! about?
New York, at the end of the 1920s. Xavier X. Mortanse, a seventeen-year-old apprentice demolition man, who claims to be an immigrant from Hungary, falls into a hole -- the beginning of myriad bizarre humiliations he suffers, only to be shown mercy by a hairdresser named Peggy Sue who will later suffer a grotesque fate. When Xavier loses his job, he and his singing frog are hired to perform in a vaudeville show, where freakish and sordid acts attempt to outdo each other. Violence and ugliness blend cartoonishly with comedy and music as Gaetan Soucy dares us to look into the darkest sides of human experience. No one in this fascinating tableau is who he or she appears including Xavier himself, who is, as his mother says, too many people and no one.
Who reads Vaudeville!?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gaétan Soucy
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780887847820
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4.63 / 5 (38 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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