Michael Sean Comerford

American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals (eBook, ePUB)

Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You'll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same again!

American Oz is a rollicking, gritty, adventurous story of life in the secretive subculture of traveling carnivals.

Comerford writes a bold, inspiring true story of a year working behind the scenes with the colorful characters and legends of carnivals.

He shares stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunmen rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road.

It's a new classic American road story as he hitchhikes to shows in California, New Jersey, New York, Chicago, Alaska, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, and Florida where he works in a freak show.

He becomes the #1 hitchhiker in the USA and a top agent at the State Fair of Texas.

He travels to the lawless foothills of Mexico to see the new face of the American carny. He exposes the truths about immigration, labor abuse, and living between two worlds.

Comerford finds carnival people seeking meaning and love in their lives, and the answers always seem to be somewhere down the road.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Comerford Publishing LLC
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781952693038
• Artikelnr.: 59785545

Autorenporträt

Michael Sean Comerford is a writer and Pulitzer Prize-nominated former international journalist who worked in Chicago, New York, Budapest, and Moscow. He's bicycled cross country three times and hitchhiked across America, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He's ridden freight trains and rounded-up cattle out West, studied Buddhism in the Himalayas, and won a heavyweight boxing championship in Ireland. He toured almost 100 countries, swam the headwaters of the Nile, fought off a hippo attack, and toured ecological disaster areas in the Amazon. Comerford's bylines have appeared in the Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Copley News Service, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal and the Moscow Times. He lives in the Chicago area to be near his daughter Grace. He's promised her that he'll stay closer to home for a while.