Spangle Author:Gary Jennings Gary Jennings, whose previous novels Aztec and The Journeyer enthralled hundreds of thousands of readers, has outdone himself in this rich and eventful novel about the adventures of a nineteenth-century circus troupe. With the endlessly fecund imagination and bottomless trove of lore that are the hallmarks of the man whom the New York Times cal... more »s "the best amoung our practicing historical novelists," Jennings takes us from the embittered and impoverished post-Civil War South to the glittering and decadent capitals and courts of Europe, from the turbulent new kingdom of Italy to the grim empire of the Russian Tsar, and finally to Paris under wartime siege.« less