BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Frank Delaney's The Matchmaker of www.doorway.ruy Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, . Teeming with intrigue, pathos, and humor, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show explores two of Ireland’s great national passions: theater and politics. Writing with his signature mastery and lyrical prose, Frank Delaney once again delivers an unforgettable story as big . A pop star, that is—or, in the case of Delaney’s latest (Shannon, , etc.), a star of the stage, Venetia Kelly. The story crosses the continents between Ireland and New York, along which route young Ben MacCarthy loses his father to the wiles of the temptress—a woman born out of wedlock, unmarried and of the theater, enough to banish her from polite society.
Interweaving a host of unforgettable creations—"King" Kelly, Venetia's violent, Mephistophelean grandfather; Sarah Kelly, Venetia's mysterious, amoral mother; and even a truth-telling ventriloquist's dummy named Blarney—Frank Delaney unfurls a splendid narrative that spans half the world and a tumultuous decade. Teeming with intrigue, pathos, and humor, Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show explores two of Ireland's great national passions: theater and politics. Writing with his signature mastery and lyrical prose, Frank Delaney once again delivers an unforgettable story as big and boisterous as the people and events it chronicles. Venita Kelly's Traveling Show by Frank Delaney From the synopsis: January While Ireland roils in the run-up to the most important national election in the Republic's short history, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside.
A pop star, that is—or, in the case of Delaney’s latest (Shannon, , etc.), a star of the stage, Venetia Kelly. The story crosses the continents between Ireland and New York, along which route young Ben MacCarthy loses his father to the wiles of the temptress—a woman born out of wedlock, unmarried and of the theater, enough to banish her from polite society. Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland - Kindle edition by Delaney, Frank. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland. Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show Today, 23 February , Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show is published – my fourth novel and fifth book since (including the non-fiction, Simple Courage). So far the reviews have been pleasingly good, but of course they don’t tell what I alone know – why the book came to be written.
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