The Resource Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch
Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch
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The item Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pioneer Library System.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pioneer Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Birch (Jamrach's Menagerie) reimagines the life of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman, born with hair all over her body and facial abnormalities, who becomes a carnival freak and musical performer of worldwide renown. After her discovery by an American promoter, Julia ventures to New Orleans and points north before embarking on a European tour with her handsome young manager, who shocks the world by marrying her. Remarkably poised, well educated, and refined, she is nevertheless subjected to casual cruelty and vulgar assaults by ignorant bystanders and medical professionals alike
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Orphans of the carnival : a novel
- Title
- Orphans of the carnival
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Carol Birch
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Birch (Jamrach's Menagerie) reimagines the life of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman, born with hair all over her body and facial abnormalities, who becomes a carnival freak and musical performer of worldwide renown. After her discovery by an American promoter, Julia ventures to New Orleans and points north before embarking on a European tour with her handsome young manager, who shocks the world by marrying her. Remarkably poised, well educated, and refined, she is nevertheless subjected to casual cruelty and vulgar assaults by ignorant bystanders and medical professionals alike
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Birch, Carol
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pastrana, Julia
- Women entertainers
- Freak shows
- Circus
- Abnormalities, Human
- Interpersonal relations
- Exploitation
- Hypertrichosis
- Label
- Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn937999119
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385541527
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- Orphans of the carnival : a novel, Carol Birch
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn937999119
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 333 pages
- Isbn
- 9780385541527
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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