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In the summer of 1976, Mary Flynn ran away from home and joined the circus. Follow her down the road as she learns a whole new life as a circus clown, makes friends with circus folks, learns to cope with life on the road, and falls in love along the way. Note: This novel is not a children's book; it contains strong language and adult situations.
Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a seedy neighborhood where drugs, balloon animals, and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, she struggles to live her dreams, calling on cultural masters Charlie Chaplin, Kafka, and da Vinci for inspiration. In an effort to support herself and her layabout performance-artist boyfriend, Clown Girl finds herself unwittingly transformed into a "corporate clown," trapping herself in a cycle of meaningless, high-paid gigs that veer dangerously close to prostitution. Monica Drake has created a novel that riffs on the high comedy of early film stars — most notably Chaplin and W. C. Fields — to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification, this debut novel blends the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty with stunning skill.
This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.
Into your heart comes the story about Cookie the Clown and her family who journey from Clownika, the homeland of real clowns, into our human world. They begin living among Gudigads (what the clowns call us) and become minorities in our world. By looking at the clown race, the story teaches children that people are sometimes treated differently based solely on how they look.
Girls are now out-performing boys at GCSE level, giving rise to a debate in the media on boys' underachievement. However, often such work has been a 'knee-jerk' response, led by media, not based on solid research. Boys, Girls and Achievement - Addressing the Classroom Issues fills that gap and: *provides a critical overview of the current debate on achievement; *Focuses on interviews with young people and classroom observations to examine how boys and girls see themselves as learners; *analyses the strategies teachers can use to improve the educational achievements of both boys and girls. Becky Francis provides teachers with a thorough analysis of the various ways in which secondary school pupils construct their gender identities in the classroom. The book also discusses methods teachers might use challenge these gender constructions in the classroom and thereby address the 'gender-gap' in achievement.
Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music by Yuan Jingfang Pdf
"Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music" offers a detailed survey of Chinese traditional music in five chapters, each dealing with a different genre. The five genres are folk songs, dance music, narrative singing, music from Chinese opera, and instrumental music. The book begins with an introduction providing an overview of Chinese traditional music history, its connotations and main musical features, an indispensable context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. Within the main text, the authors discuss not only the local music genres, focusing on instruments, music analysis, and tonal theories, but also the historical evolution, performance, and social contexts associated with the music. A glossary of Chinese musical terms is listed in the appendix.
The Education of a Circus Clown by David Carlyon Pdf
2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.
Alan Clay's new book on clown, Angels can Fly, promises a mix of fiction, following the adventures of ten clown characters, some personal clown anecdotes, a total of 50 practical clown exercises, and some theory on the nature of modern clown.
Nita vive nelle strade pericolose di Baloneytown, tra tossici, agenti di polizia, alternativi, artisti, personaggi folli e cani randagi. Per campare fa il clown, fa la Clown Girl, ma non è un ripiego, un mezzo per sbarcare il lunario, è la sua vera passione, il suo grande sogno: un’aspirazione e un talento, una forma d’arte sublime e difficile, drammaticamente sospesa tra lo scherno e la malinconia. In un mondo che non capisce le sue battute e che in un nobile pagliaccio vede solo un buffone. Nita è fidanzata con Rex Galore, il bel clown, è perdutamente innamorata di lui, ma Rex non si fa vedere, le telefona ogni tanto dall’Università dello Spettacolo dove è andato con i soldi che lei le manda. Ma il desiderio è troppo e la distanza incolmabile, e ogni giorno Nita deve inventare qualcosa, legare i palloncini in forme di animali per divertire un’orda di bambini molesti e chiassosi, soddisfare il feticismo di un cliente particolare, intrattenere i dipendenti di un’azienda con spettacoli al limite della prostituzione, guardarsi da un giovane poliziotto dolce e comprensivo, attento e appassionato, che un po’ le fa battere il cuore... E in tutto questo due fedeli compagni di vita sono improvvisamente scomparsi, il cane adorato e Plucky, la gallina di gomma collega di tante avventure... Nita la Clown Girl è una martire appassionata e un’irresistibile commediante, poetica come Charlot, sarcastica quanto Groucho Marx, indignata come Holden Caulfield. Le sue avventure sono puro movimento frenetico, una esilarante, irresistibile immersione nei sogni della giovinezza, nella follia della passione, nella sorpresa continua di un cambio di scena, nell’attesa di un gesto imprevisto, di un ultimo, improvviso, scroscio di applausi. «Vi presento il libro della mia peggiore nemica, o “rivale”, per dirla in maniera piú elegante: ma viva la sincerità. [...] Non sto compiendo un’opera pia né voglio adulare nessuno: sono soltanto sincero. Tra gli scrittori esiste una grande rivalità, ma avere avversari validi come Monica Drake è una manna dal cielo. Clown Girl non è solo un grande libro, è unico, un mondo a sé. Averne, di nemici di cosí gran talento». Chuck Palahniuk «Il ritmo della narrazione è anfetaminico e Nita, la Clown Girl, emerge come un personaggio memorabile, un testimone di quanto le emozioni possano essere al tempo stesso ridicole e sublimi». Publishers Weekly «La parola “unico” è sicuramente abusata ma credo che per una volta sia giustificata: questo romanzo è diverso da qualunque altro, e nel senso migliore. Un esordio davvero esaltante». Kevin Canty «Nita è il clown piú divertente e commovente dai tempi di Smokey Robinson». Entertainment Weekly «Le pagine di Clown Girl rilasciano l’odore dell’asfalto cotto dal sole, di cannella e acquaragia, birra e frutta, urina e sudore. Un debutto brillante e coinvolgente». Philadelphia Weekly «Clown Girl è tra i romanzi recenti piú raffinati e originali, il risultato di anni di lavoro di una talentuosa scrittrice di Portland». Seattle Times
The Forgotten Things takes place inside an unparticular, unspecified, and seemingly unspecial little toyshop. Within this toyshop, there is a corner where broken rejected toys are placed. These toys were unwanted by their owners and so were brought to the little toyshop to be resold. The Forgotten Things is a collection of stories about these unwanted forgotten toys. Each toy represents an internal struggle of the human heart such as, self-loathing, warped self-image, depression, loss, and loneliness. Together, these forgotten things represent the desire to find our purpose and a place to belong. Each forgotten thing finds a new purpose and each one learns to love every part of themselves even the parts that might not be perfect. In their own way, in their own time, each of the toys learns that nothing is so broken that it cannot be mended.
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is by Rhyannon Styles Pdf
'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop hearing about. Rhyannon Styles will do for transgender what Matt Haig did for mental health. Elle columnist Rhyannon Styles tells her unforgettable life story in THE NEW GIRL, reflecting on her past and charting her incredible journey from male to female. A raw, frank and utterly moving celebration of life. Imagine feeling lost in your own body. Imagine spending years living a lie, denying what makes you 'you'. This was Ryan's reality. He had to choose: die as a man or live as a woman. In 2012, Ryan chose Rhyannon. At the age of thirty she began her transition, taking the first steps on the long road to her true self. Rhyannon holds nothing back in THE NEW GIRL, a heartbreakingly honest telling of her life. Through her catastrophic lows and incredible highs, she paints a glorious technicolour picture of what it's like to be transgender. From cabaret drag acts, brushes with celebrity and Parisian clown school, to struggles with addiction and crippling depression, Rhyannon's story is like nothing you've read before. Narrated with searing honesty, humour and poignancy, THE NEW GIRL is a powerful book about being true to ourselves, for anyone who's ever felt a little lost.