Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

Jay, Ricky

ISBN 10: 0709031505 / ISBN 13: 9780709031505

Published by Robert Hale Ltd, London, 1987

About this Item

352 p. Audience: General/trade. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0010107

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709031505
• ISBN 13: 9780709031505
• Binding: Hard cover

About this title

Synopsis

A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print. Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, most recently, Boogie Nights. Jay's unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, and, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the world made this unique book possible. An investigation into the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, and singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual--and irresistible--sort.

About the Author

Ricky Jay is the author of Cards as Weapons and has appeared both on television and in movies. He has worked with Joseph Papp, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Mamet. He is currently writing a book about great wagers through history.