First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). A Few Bumps To The Lower Board Edges. A Few Very Tiny Spots On The Edges. The Jacket Has Edge Wear And A Few Short Tears.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs

Publisher

Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0881504122

ISBN 13

9780881504125

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

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Synopsis

Blue Ribbons and Burlesque presents more than 200 arresting photographs taken nearly 30 years ago and an engaging text that blends memories with information on nearly every aspect of the world of American country fairs.

With the same keen observation and lyrical prose, Charles Fish has turned to the country fairs of his youth. Country fairs still draw crowds, and readers will recognize many of the features so strikingly captured in this book. But times have changed. "Looming larger for the young than they do today," Fish writes, "the fairs as I knew them are emblematic of a passing way of life. They were rich with images and wonders at a time when entertainment was more restrained, the panorama of the wide world less brutally revealed. They presented forms of excellence growing out of our daily life―fine cattle, fast horses, fine machines―but they also offered provocative glimpses of forms of pleasure and the grotesque usually veiled in our little village." While never ceasing to entertain and inform, Blue Ribbons and Burlesque also raises questions about nature and nurture, theatrical illusion, the pursuit of excellence, and the power of novelty and the erotic.

About the Author

Charles Fish teaches English at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Eleanor, live in Dummerston, Vermont.

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