Book description
The Trapeze Artist
draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a
work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking
account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the
suffocating weight of his desires, his family and his grief. It speaks
of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to
communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions and tempers of
circus life, and above all, the joyous longing to break free, and to
swing higher and higher... As a performance, Will Davis's third novel,
about a man who has a nervous breakdown and runs away with the circus,
is distinctive ... With a double flourish, everything becomes clear ...
the closing scene is heart-stopping Will Davis is the author of two
novels, My Side of the Story
, which won the Betty Trask Prize 2007, and Dream Machine
. He has trained as an aerialist and specializes in corde lisse (rope),
tissu (silks) and static trapeze. He lives in Highbury, London.
