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A Fool Rides the Wheel of Fortune
Hardcover
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9780985807061
Publisher: Edgewise Publications
Published: Jul 1 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
May Day, 1970... Annabelle, nineteen and disheartened with her coal-town prospects, meets Walt, who runs a game in a traveling carnival and wins a date with her after the show closes. Wandering McCain's Magic Midway, she enters a sideshow, where a three-armed man reads her Tarot cards. Their mysterious images echo her reality. Later, at a bar in town, Walt boasts of life on the road, and Annabelle confesses her yen to be elsewhere. She takes a shot at adventure and romance, goes to his hotel room, and the next night rolls out of town with Walt and the show --- joining a bizarre troupe of characters, who embody aspects of the archetypal Trumps in the Tarot's Major Arcana. Annabelle narrates her tale of one week among the strange society of a West Virginia carnival, whereupon her love for Walt takes wing amid blind lust, yet soon flutters in and out of her confused heart.
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