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"At 16, Edward Fitzgerald happens into a film about the Newport Jazz Festival and falls in love with jazz. Throughout the '60s'and '70s and '80s and '90s, he loves it, even adopts it as a theme for each section of his story. Through the remainder of Volume 1 of My Life with Women, he continues to adopt these themes while he goes on living his life and meeting women. He happens into Copenhagen and a loveless marriage and decides to continue the union for the children. In the mid '90s, he effects his escape from that marriage and there Volume 1 ends"--

"At 16, Edward Fitzgerald happens into a film about the Newport Jazz Festival and falls in love with jazz. Throughout the '60s'and '70s and '80s and '90s, he loves it, even adopts it as a theme for each section of his story. Through the remainder of Volume 1 of My Life with Women, he continues to adopt these themes while he goes on living his life and meeting women. He happens into Copenhagen and a loveless marriage and decides to continue the union for the children. In the mid '90s, he effects his escape from that marriage and there Volume 1 ends"--

A small rag-tag circus/carnival breaks down in the desert in southern New Mexico after a dust storm. Various members of the troupe begin to pull out-this latest disaster the last straw. Those now left have been faithful followers of Dusty, the owner, together with his long-suffering wife, Alta, former trapeze artists, with their dream of creating a show greater than The Greatest Show on Earth, a giant celebration at the heart of the city. Those left have nowhere else to go: Donovan, a giant; Curran, a midget: Billy Bigelow, a magician-cum-handyman and electrician. Into this scene of general disarray, Dusty brings Amazing Grace, who dances with snakes, and the Kid, who might be her brother. She is the one, Dusty is convinced, who will change their luck.

In this chapbook, you will find the first chapters of Carnival for the Gods, and the four novels that form a sequence from Gladys Swan's comic fantasy, first published in the Vintage Contemporaries Series. The World of Carnival continues with its original inhabitants and their struggles against the odds: Alta and Dusty, who dream big; the midget Curran, who undertakes a journey at the behest of the acrobat Elise, whose son has gone mad (Small Wonder); Amazing Grace, whose talents as a performer bring gasps from her audience, lead her to the challenge of creating herself (Dancing with Snakes); the Kid, who, after a long search, sets out to find the Seventh City, picking up along the way a melancholy Jew, who grew up there (The Dream Seekers). And, finally, a return to Alta, who finds herself drawn back to the circus to follow another set of dreams (Down to Earth). The series of novels explores the relations between life and art, reality and illusion, the openness to possibility and the capacity for the renewal of energies within a culture. It is the writer's major work, and it is her dream that the sequence may one day be published.

In a new, provocative collection of essays, William Eaton, the author of Surviving the Twenty-First Century, shares the pleasures of a life full of questions, tastes, reading and more visual arts. "That we are animals, that is as sure as ever. How savagely we behave toward one another and toward other species and inorganic others. How we rub affectionately up against one another and-however desperately-make love."