The swan gondola

Schaffert, Timothy2014

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The gothic amusements of the 1898 Omaha World Fair become the backdrop to a love affair between Ferret Skerritt, a ventriloquist and con man, and Cecily, a travelling player who loses her head every night in a horror show. For lovers of }Water for Elephants{ and }The Night Circus{. On the eve of the 1898 Omaha WorldCOs Fair, Ferret SkerrittaCo ventriloquist by trade, conman by birthaCo isnCOt quite sure how it will change him or his city. Omaha still has the marks of a filthy Wild West town, even as it attempts to achieve the grandeur and respectability of nearby Chicago. But when he crosses paths with the beautiful and enigmatic Cecily, his whole purpose shifts and the fair becomes the backdrop to their love affair. One of a travelling troupe of actors that has descended on the city, Cecily works in the MidwayCOs Chamber of Horrors, where she loses her head hourly on a guillotine playing Marie Antoinette. And after closing, she rushes off, clinging protectively to a mysterious carpet bag, never giving Ferret a second glance. But a moonlit ride on the swan gondola, a boat on the lagoon of the New White City, changes everything, and the fairCOs magic begins to take its effect.