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Delaney, Frank, 1942-
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Traveling theater -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-1949 -- Fiction.
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Venetia Kelly's trav...
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Venetia Kelly's traveling show [electronic resource] : a novel / Frank Delaney.
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Delaney, Frank, 1942-
New York : Books on Tape, 2010.
Subjects
Traveling theater -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Fiction.
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1922-1949 -- Fiction.
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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=DE9D3498-DFA7-44B6-8AB1-16E8E3AFA751
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http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/258271-VenetiaKellysTravelingShow.wma
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http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/258271-VenetiaKellysTravelingShow.mp3
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9780307714596 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
0307714594 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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"She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow." And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Shannon. January 1932: While Ireland roils in the run-up to the most important election in the Republic's short history, Ben MacCarthy and his father watch a vagabond variety revue making a stop in the Irish countryside. After a two-hour kaleidoscope of low comedy, Shakespearean recitations, juggling, tumbling, and other entertainments, Ben's father, mesmerized by Venetia Kelly, the troupe's magnetic headliner, makes a fateful decision: to abandon his family and set off on the road with Miss Kelly and her caravan. Ben's mother, shattered by the desertion, exhorts, "Find him and bring him back", thereby sending the boy on a Homeric voyage into manhood, a quest that traverses the churning currrents...
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