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The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts
By Fontaine, Tessa
- ISBN
- 9780374158378 9780374717025
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 16, 2018 | Nonfiction
In this memoir, Fontaine recounts one season working on a traveling sideshow, the World of Wonders. Starting as a bally girl, she works her way up from learning simple acts such as holding a boa constrictor and escaping from handcuffs to eating fire and shocking herself with electricity. Interspersed...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
