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    <body><![CDATA[This book of related short stories follows the lineage of different circus characters to modern day - from the man who brings in the circus to a distant relative who runs kicking and screaming from her hometown. CIRCUS creates a magic about heritage (through characters, through different families, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6771995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Circus in Winter walks a tightrope between what could reasonably be considered a novel and what could be classified as short stories. Instead of seeming awkward, though, this ends up giving us the best of both worlds--beautiful, tightly wrapped slices of life that intersect to give us a much lar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36411154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cathy was a professor of mine at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the few to have actually published something significant (other than David Walton's Ride and Marcia Landy's gazillion text books about Italian film), so I felt obliged to give the book a once over.  I've always liked Cathy, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17081183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Alice Munro and Sherwood Anderson had a child, and that child was given up for adoption and subsequently raised by Ricky Jay, the child's name would be <em>The Circus in Winter</em>, and it would be an exquisite and profound collection of short stories.<br/><br/>To say this book exceeds my expectations ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12649744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A series of connected short stories, this book has more in common with <em>Winesburg Ohio</em> than <em>The Greatest Show on Earth</em>. The small town of Lima, Indiana (read Peru, Indiana) is the winter home for a circus.  The stories span the 100 plus years between a local businessman buying the circus to the year ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75895373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I might be a little biased considering I was in Cathy's class the semester she sold this book, but it is truly one of the greatest pieces of writing I have ever read.  It's a short story cycle that works as separate pieces but better together and not in an overly-contrived way.  Touching, interestin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50467936">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though the plot summary on the book jacket seemed compelling, I was very turned off by the language and sexual content in the first section.  The second seemed more promising, but I opted not to finish because I have better things to read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[On TV kids always talk about running away and joining the circus, I always wondered what the hell these kids were talking about. I've never actually been to the circus but I never really saw the appeal of it. But after reading what I felt the inner lives of circus folk and the seedy underbelly of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19425951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great collection of short stories all centering around the same circus over many generations and owners.  Most were pretty sad, and I sometimes had to take a break from it to read something a little more positive, but it was really well-written and I'd recommend.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a beautiful collection of stories about the lies people have to tell themselves to get through their days.  love the dark charm of the circus.  we are all just sideshows in the light of day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in 2004 and then again in late 2008. I absolutely love it. If you don't read the entire book, at least read &quot;Winnesaw.&quot; It's absolutely fantastic and beautifully written.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love, love, loved this book.  It is a collection of short stories revolving around the town of Lima, PA, which apparently started as a wintering town for a traveling circus.  The stories move through several decades and at least three generations of circus folk and family of circus folk.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36962977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful look at the seedy interior of early circus life through the vehicle of a memoir, part truth and part myth.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Full-disclosure.  I am friends with the author.  I took a class with her while she was finishing this book.  I have stayed at her home with her family.  I have cheered her on when she was up for the Story Prize several years ago.<br/><br/>This book is everything that is great about contemporary wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6155762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love short stories, although collections often disappoint as a whole -- this one, though, is beautifully linked together so that, by the end, you feel as if you've come to know generations of families better than they know themselves. You know all of their lies and mistakes and things that have lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26780423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[very interesting read.  I love how she developed characters and wove the storis together.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very strange.  It skipped around a lot.  Not one  I recommend]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a real chore to read. Depressing as hell. Really well written, but depressing as hell. I wanted to put it down before I was half through with it, but I had nothing else to read so I trudged on. I was hoping for a big payoff at the end, but no such luck.<br/><br/>I was looking for a book a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24809185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This quirky little Midwestern novel grabbed me right away.  Each chapter is the story of a person connected to a fictional circus based in Lima, Indiana.  There is the story of the founder and his wife, of the aerial artist, the elephant keeper killed by Caesar, his star attraction, and many more.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36378624">more...</a>]]></body>
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