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The Final Confession of Mabel Stark: The Fearless Lady Trainer Wrestling the Now Friendly and Willing Once Terror of the Jungle
In the 1910s and '20s, during the golden age of the big top, Mabel Stark was the superstar of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, and one of America's most eccentric celebrities. A tiny (barely five-feet tall) curvaceous Kentucky blonde in a white leather bodysuit, Mabel was brazen, sexually adventurous, and suicidally courageous in her pursuits . . .
A brilliant, exhilarating story of an America before television and movies, when the spectacle of the circus reigned and an unlikely woman captured the public imagination with her singular charm and audacity, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark is Robert Hough's brilliant, highly acclaimed novelization of her fantastic life.
"Tackling the life of the indomitable Mabel Stark (the first female tiger trainer in circus history), The Final Confession of Mabel Stark is brough to life from her journals and letters." -- Booklist