The Circus Fire

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 2000. First Edition. Association copy, warmly INSCRIBED by O'Nan to fellow author Chris Offutt on the title page: "20 June 2000 / The official date of publication / For Chris / This first foray into non-fiction / With many thanks and much hope / Stewart O'Nan." The novelist's nonfiction account of the legendary Ringling Brothers circus fire of 1944,in Hartford, Connecticut, an event that changed an American town forever.

From the collection of Chris Offutt.

Offutt is the author of “Kentucky Straight” and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs, and, in 1996, was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by “Granta” magazine. He has also written for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others.

Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

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