Life in the Lion's Mouth - Softcover

Dubbs, James R

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ISBN 10: 1537423428 ISBN 13: 9781537423425

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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Greenwich Village, folk music, a traveling circus, the road, and first love: Life in the Lion's Mouth will delight anyone who came of age in the 60s or wishes they had...

Set in 1962, Life in the Lion's Mouth is the “beat-lite” story of seventeen-year-old loner Robert Campbell. Desperate to escape his hometown, Robert embraces his dead father's long-ago advice to “live life in the lion's mouth” and joins a small, dysfunctional traveling circus as the star "prop" in the troupe's long-defunct lion's mouth act.

But when Robert meets new-hire Anna, an aspiring folksinger who instantly re-names him “Bobby,” his life is upended and he embarks on a seminal journey that tests his loyalty to the circus and leads him to the outskirts of the Greenwich Village folk scene and The Cafe Flame. There, among the Cafe's eclectic cast of artists, sages, and fools, Robert confronts his buried past and truly discovers “life in the lion's mouth.”

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About the Author:

James R. Dubbs, author of Life in the Lion's Mouth, is a longtime resident of South Central Pennsylvania, where he has worked in a myriad of jobs, including factory worker, newspaper writer, realtor, liquor store clerk, groundskeeper, customer service representative, and self-employed baker. During the 1990's, he left his home state to study creative writing for two years at The University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, Alaska where he met his wife, Johanna. His writing has appeared in numerous fiction periodicals, including The Quiet Time Report, Explorations, and Wrinkles. The Mortician’s Daughter & other short stories is his first collection of short fiction.

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