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Transformation Of Bartholomew Fortuno: A Love Story (2010)

by Ellen Bryson(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0330518879 (ISBN13: 9780330518871)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Picador USA

review 1: Let me start by saying that I really liked the idea of this book... maybe more so than the actual book itself. I love all things Circus related, and began reading this hoping to be sucked in, waiting for Bartholomew to stop being so whiny, waiting for something big to happen...and it just never really seemed to happen. While it was an easy read (as others have pointed out, some plot points were over clarified leading you to mutter 'duh!' or 'obviously' to yourself as you read). but the biggest problem for me was that I really didn't like Bartholomew as a person, which is unfortunate haha. Overall, I thought it was a decent story, I just wish I liked the characters better....ones that don't hide in wardrobes maybe.
review 2: The title and cover illustration of t... morehis book give the impression that it is about someone turning into a saint, but is turns out to be the opposite. The story centres around a group of sympathetically portrayed “Human Curiosities” who are exhibited in PT Barnum’s freak show museum, of whom some have the choice of transforming into ordinary humans. By contrast, others are not curiosities by choice, but by birth, and nightmarishly deformed. Bartholomew is a “human skeleton” who falls in love with a fascinating bearded woman and thus starts doubting his “gift” of being able to live on four beans a day. Highly absorbing, this suspenseful, well-illustrated debut novel will drive you to the Internet to find out more about this terrible historical reality. less

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