Spangle Author:Gary Jennings "A rich and eventful novel about the adventures of a nineteenth-century circus troupe. With the endlessly fecund imagination and bottomless trove of lore . . . 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 g... more »rim empire of the Russian Tsar, and finally to Paris under wartime siege.« less