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Title Statement | Curious toys: a novel / Elizabeth Hand. |
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Author | Hand, Elizabeth |
Publication | New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company,2019.©2019 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 373 pages ; |
ISBN | 0316485888 9780316485883 |
Other Number | 3573844 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Teenage girls--Fiction |
Artists--Fiction | |
Cross-dressing--Fiction | |
Gangs--Fiction | |
Amusement parks--Fiction | |
Serial murderers--Fiction | |
Serial murder investigation--Fiction | |
Child molesters--Fiction | |
By Name | Darger, Henry,1892-1973 |
By Location | Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |