The Swan Gondola: A Novel

✍ Schaffert, Timothy 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Penguin 🌐 English ⚖ 278 KB

***\*A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair.***\* On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn’t quite sure how it wi

The Swan Gondola

✍ Schaffert, Timothy 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 en-US ⚖ 454 KB

****A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight s?ances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair.**** On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn't quite sure how i

The Swan Gondola

✍ Schaffert, Timothy 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 en-US ⚖ 454 KB

****A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair.**** On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn't quite sure how i

The Swan Gondola

✍ Schaffert, Timothy 📂 Fiction 📅 2014 🏛 Penguin Group US 🌐 en-US ⚖ 454 KB

****A lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight séances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair.**** On the eve of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, Ferret Skerritt, ventriloquist by trade, con man by birth, isn't quite sure how i

The Swan: A Novel

✍ Jim Cohee 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Indiana University Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 114 KB

**"Alternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, *The Swan* is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can―and cannot―endure." —*Publishers Weekly*** Indianapolis, 1957. Ten-year-old Aaron Cooper has witnessed the death of his younger sister, Pookie, and the trauma has le

Swan : A Novel

✍ Frances Mayes 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Crown 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

**A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets b**y the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Under the Tuscan Sun_ and _Under Magnolia _**** In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. In _Swan_ , her