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Synopsis
May Day, 1970... Annabelle Cory---a comely nineteen-year-old, disheartened with her West Virginia coal-town life---meets Walt Ryder, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Abandoning all caution for her shot at adventure and romance, she goes with Walt to his hotel bed, and the next night leaves home with his carnival. Narrating her tale of the following week, Annabelle’s voice is laced with mountain dialect and carnival jargon, yet woven with language begotten from her love of reading. Her love for Walt takes wing amid blind lust, spiraling in and out of her heart as she follows him into the razzle-dazzle world of McCain’s Magic Midway. Appalachian Carnival tells of a time when showmen were in cahoots with the local law, a time when psychedelics were taken for trips inward. S.M.Fernand, in each chapter/day, alludes to aspects of a Tarot card’s archetypal symbolism---the story shape-shifting to allegory. Annabelle, seeking her liberation amid a caravan of carnies, rolls the dice to win a ride on the wheel of fortune, and finds herself awakening within the soul of all.
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S.M.Fernand grew up in a Massachusetts factory town. In his early 20’s, he wandered the East Coast as a singer-songwriter, financed by seasonal work in carnival games. After quitting the midway, he shifted from song to prose, and began to read hungrily. On St.Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, he found work as a sandal maker. Returning stateside in 1982, Fernand designed his own line of handmade footwear, and eventually set up shop near Traverse City, Michigan. After selling his business in 2006, he sat down and wrote "Appalachian Carnival"--- published by Edgewise Publications. Fernand now spends his summers in Northern Michigan and his winters in St.Petersburg, Florida, where he plays an occasional musical gig, and works on his trilogy.
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- PublisherEdgewise Publications
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0985807075
- ISBN 13 9780985807078
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages324
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Appalachian Carnival (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)
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Edgewise Publications, Benzonia, MI, 2012
ISBN 10: 0985807075
ISBN 13: 9780985807078
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION! Flatsigned by the author on the half-title page! Full-color illustrated wrapper with black and orange lettering. 317 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and magical pages! "May Day, 1970. Annabelle Cory---a comely nineteen-year-old, disheartened with her West Virginia coal-town life---meets Walt Ryder, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Abandoning all caution for her shot at adventure and romance, she goes with Walt to his hotel bed, and the next night leaves home with his carnival. Narrating her tale of the following week, Annabelle's voice is laced with mountain dialect and carnival jargon, yet woven with language begotten from her love of reading. Her love for Walt takes wing amid blind lust, spiraling in and out of her heart as she follows him into the razzle-dazzle world of McCain s Magic Midway. Appalachian Carnival tells of a time when showmen were in cahoots with the local law, a time when psychedelics were taken for trips inward. S.M.Fernand, in each chapter/day, alludes to aspects of a Tarot card's archetypal symbolism---the story shape-shifting to allegory. Annabelle, seeking her liberation amid a caravan of carnies, rolls the dice to win a ride on the wheel of fortune, and finds herself awakening within the soul of all." (SIGNED FIRST EDITION). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 050446
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