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Eyeing the Flash : The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
Eyeing the Flash The Making of a Carnival Con Artist
Author: Peter Fenton
The memoir of a shy middle-class kid turned first-classhuckster. The year is 1963, the setting small-town Michigan. Pete Fenton is just another well-mannered math student until he meets Jackie Barron, a teenage grifter who introduces him to the carnival underworld--and lures him with the cons, the double-dealing, and, most of all, the easy mone...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743258555
ISBN-10: 074325855X
Publication Date: 2/28/2006
Pages: 244
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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Adulthood, like the midway itself...a world of flashing lights, pounding music, cheap thrills and even cheaper suits, not to mention deceir, perishable pleasures and no curfews--Lee K. Abbott, The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC


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