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Late at night in an Ohio shopping mall, a teenage girl is discovered speechless and traumatized, tattooed all over with black fish scales. She is adopted by Lucy, an ex-side-show fat lady. Lucy must now face the seedy world she escaped, and something or someone seems to want the girl back.

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Nobody heard her scream...

Late at night in an empty Ohio shopping mall, a teenage girl is discovered by a security guard. Speechless and traumatised, she has also been tattooed all over her body with tiny black fish scales. The authorities name the girl Emma and allow Lucy Thurman to adopt her.

An ex-fat-lady in a circus side-show, Lucy has spent most of her adult life feeling a 'freak'. But, as she works to understand exactly what has happened to her new daughter, she is forced to face her own demons and return to the seedy side-shows it once took all her power to escape from. And there are also dangers closer to hand, for it seems that whoever - or whatever - it is that Emma has escaped from, wants her back...

‘you won't be able to turn the pages fast enough...’ Washington Post

‘In direct prose, both unflinching and lyrical, Stevens explores many of the themes that made [his] first book so compelling: the ideas of human cruelty, salvation, and insanity's grip on the collective unconscious are set against a circus backdrop - and the result is a twisted coming-of-age story filled with the surreal horror of David Lynch’ Booklist

Brooke Stevens worked as a tiger groom with the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey and the circus background in this book is lavishly and accurately detailed.

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  • PublisherAUTREMENT
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 2746704064
  • ISBN 13 9782746704060
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages376
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. A deux heures du matin dans le hall désert d'un centre commercial de l'Ohio, un veilleur de nuit découvre une jeune fille étendue par terre. Inerte, aphone et anonyme, Emma est surtout tatouée des pieds à la tête. Lucy, une ancienne attraction de foire, se propose rapidement de s'occuper de la jeune muette et de l'adopter. D'abord, elle cherche à savoir ce qui a bien pu arriver à Emma, mais cette recherche des origines se heurte vite à de dangereux poursuivants. Peu à peu, le chasseur se transforme en proie : Lucy est faite prisonnière par ceux qu'elle pensait poursuivre. C'est alors Emma qui part sur les routes pour tenter de retrouver sa mère adoptive. Elle aussi finit par tomber entre les mains d'un étrange tortionnaire. Le Pasteur devenu télé-évangéliste dans le piège duquel les deux jeunes femmes se sont précipité était en fait à l'origine de leurs deux destins. C'est lui qui, des années auparavant, avait violé Lucy, la promettant ainsi à un avenir de bête de foire énorme et difforme. C'est également lui qui, après l'avoir enlevée à ses parents, avait tatoué Emma des pieds à la tête et l'avait forcée au silence. Seule l'intervention d'un nain, ancienne attraction de cirque qui aura mis des années pour traduire en mots son amour envers Lucy, permettra aux deux femmes de retrouver la liberté, la parole et une identité enfin assumée. - Nombre de page(s) : 374 p. - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Littératures. Seller Inventory # N9782746704060

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