SpangleA novel about the adventures of a nineteenth-century circus troupe. Jennings takes us from the embittered and impoverished post-Civil War South to the glittering and decadent capitals and courts of Europe, from the turbulent new kingdom of Italy to the grim empire of the Russian Tsar, and finally to Paris under wartime siege. |
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