Love Let Me Not Hunger.

Gallico, P.

Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, first edition, 1963, 1963

About this Item

Cloth, 8vo, [1], 313 pp. From the blurb - "There has never been a novel like this about a circus. Here is none of the swaggering glamour of the big top, but an enthralling and moving story of a group of infinitely lonely people, homeless nomads with no roots except in the small British circus where they exhibit their skills. The setting is the Don Quixote country of Cervantes on the baking central Spanish plain of La Mancha. Here the members of the stranded show are involved in a desperate struggle to save not only the lone elephant, lion and tiger and other smaller denizens of the travelling zoo, but themselves as well from starvation. The small world of Sam Marvel s Marvel Circus troupe in Spain could not confine the characters gathered under the single top. There was old Mr Albert the odd jobs and beast man, a failure in living, too late in the discovery of his strange affinity for wild creatures. And Rose! Rose Nothing, Rose Nobody, the outsider picked up off the streets by the ruthless Auguste, Jackdaw Williams, professional clown, and intruded as his mistress into the tight artificial community of the circus to the indignation of the Walters equestrian family, as prudish and clannish a dynasty as any newly ennobled Victorians. Here are Toby the young rider struggling to escape from his family into manhood, Janos the Hungarian dwarf clown who lives for his stomach and his dogs, Fred Deeter who had once punched cattle in Texas and Wyoming and now presents animal acts, and the cynical Sam Marvel himself. Their fate becomes entangled with the grotesque and horrifying Marquesa de Pozoblanco, an obese monster who might have emerged straight from the most macabre of the canvases of Goya and who lived and ruled the district in the manner of a fifteenth century tyrant queen. " Inscribed, signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. Crease to spine, top edge faintly spotted, otherwise Good in a used and chipped dustwrapper.

Seller Inventory # ABE-50860

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Let Me Not Hunger.
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, London, first edition, 1963
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction