Learned pigs & fireproof women /

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Author / Creator:Jay, Ricky.
Edition:1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk. ed.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Description:ix, 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3480391
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Varying Form of Title:Learned pigs and fireproof women
ISBN:0374525706
Notes:Includes index.
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Summary:This author is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual & talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, & fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, he has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross &, most recently, Boogie Nights. His unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, &, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, & singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual- & irresistible - sort.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:ix, 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
ISBN:0374525706