The Bounce (edition 2002)

by Betsy Tobin

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Member:	amckie
Title:	The Bounce
Authors:	Betsy Tobin
Info:	Headline Review (2002), Hardcover, 320 pages
Collections:	Read but unowned
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Tags:	.Fiction, @ 813, @ PS, Circus, _London, 2009

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The Bounce by Betsy Tobin

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A tale of love and loss, set in the glamorous and squalid circus world of London in the 1870s...Nineteen-year-old Nathan crosses the Atlantic in search of the mother who abandoned him as a young child. He takes a job as a cage boy in a circus south of the Thames, where he is quickly caught in a complex web of longing.… (more)

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