Showcased herein are characters from the schizophrenic melting pot of the modern South--a stage where the urban and the rural, the cultured and the unrefined, privileged and poor, black and white all perform side by side. An airbrush artist learns to counterfeit twenty-dollar bills in a scheme to prove to his estranged wife that he is a genuine artiste; a teenage boy becomes a peeping tom in order to discover the true reasons for his parents' divorce; a father gives his son a classical lesson in logic and revenge by taking ...
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Showcased herein are characters from the schizophrenic melting pot of the modern South--a stage where the urban and the rural, the cultured and the unrefined, privileged and poor, black and white all perform side by side. An airbrush artist learns to counterfeit twenty-dollar bills in a scheme to prove to his estranged wife that he is a genuine artiste; a teenage boy becomes a peeping tom in order to discover the true reasons for his parents' divorce; a father gives his son a classical lesson in logic and revenge by taking him to murder their next-door neighbor; the manager of an apartment complex is caught in a bizarre love triangle with a gorgeous new female tenant and her bedridden seven-hundred-pound husband. This menagerie of misfits serves as a reminder of how freakish we can become when our lives lack truth or love, or when we suddenly discover it.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. AO3-Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up...Witness alarming and amusing antics! Experience irresistible wonder and dread! All on display in Sidney Thompson's stupendous debut collection, Sideshow.
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