Spangle Volume I: The Road Show (Spangle, No 1) by Jennings, Gary and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Gary Jennings has carved out a niche for himself in modern fiction - long, intricately plotted novels based around a single character in a little known historical area. Great reads, full of love and violence, colourful and exciting. And educational - history comes alive in his books, virtually bursting out of the page to take you by the throat.5/5(5). GARY JENNINGS was known for the rigorous and intensive research behind his novels, which often included hazardous travels--exploring every corner of Mexico for his Aztec novels, retracing the numerous wanderings of Marco Polo for The Journeyer, joining nine different circuses for Spangle, and roaming the Balkans to do Raptor/5(13).
Gary Jennings is a well-known author of epic historical novels, each one set in a different period but all sharing the theme of survival by wit and chance in violent times. These sprawling works, sometimes reaching , words, are packed with violence, braggadocio and vivid sex scenes. Gary Jennings usually structures his historical novels around a narrator who comes of age in the. Spangle by Gary Jennings. By Gary Jennings. A picaresque novel in regards to the adventures of a 19th-century circus, from the embittered post-Civil warfare South to the glittering and decadent capitals and courts of Europe. From the bestselling writer of Aztec and The Journeyer. Gary Jennings led a paradoxically picaresque life. On one hand, he was a man of acknowledged intellect and erudition. His novels were international best sellers, praised around the world for their stylish prose, lively wit and adventurously bawdy spirit. Spangle is not a book of epic heroes, it is not a book of glory, nor a overall very.
Gary Jennings has carved out a niche for himself in modern fiction - long, intricately plotted novels based around a single character in a little known historical area. Great reads, full of love and violence, colourful and exciting. And educational - history comes alive in his books, virtually bursting out of the page to take you by the throat. Spangle Volume I: The Road Show (Spangle, No 1) by Jennings, Gary and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Spangle is a historical novel written by Gary Jennings (–). Published in , it follows a circus troupe known as "Florian's Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders" from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox to Europe, ending in France during the Franco-Prussian War.
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