Circus books

Jeffrey Ford, author of The Drowned Life, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Shadow Year (which I read recently), and much more, recommends several books about the circus. Check it out soon, because his previous lists are apparently nowhere to be found.

I was pleased to see some of my favorites on the list: The Circus of Dr. Lao, Nights at the Circus, and Edward Hoagland‘s first novel Cat Man, which he wrote before graduating from Harvard in 1954. (John Updike was his classmate.) If the others are as good as these, they will be well worth checking out.