Howard Bone was a side show magician virtually his whole working life. During a long, eventful, and adventurous career he lived every aspect of outdoor show business in its golden era. Side Show captures the flavor of those boisterous times—the characters, the scenes, the scams, the dodges, the joys and sorrows of carney ways as only an insider could know them. Only someone with Howard Bone’s power of observation and talent for recording events as he saw them, could have come up with this book.

. . . compulsively readable.
—Publishers Weekly

An appealing, amusing and down and dirty glimpse into the rarely depicted nether regions of show business.
—Ricky Jay, magician, actor, author

Side Show brings to life the Howard Bone we knew.
—Elaine Lund, American Museum of Magic

Howard Bone lived an extraordinary and outrageous life: soldier, sideshow magician, carnival roughie and ticket seller, martial arts master, fakir. Now we have Bone’s wildly hysterical, often poignant chronicle of that amazing life.
—James Taylor, Shocked and Amazed!

Trade paperback - 132 pages - $12.95
6" x 9" - ISBN 0941543285

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