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A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world alive through the gorgeously written, true account of renowned trapeze designer and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman on the globe at the move of the 20th hundred years, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Soaring Codona Brothers.Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name had not been a household manifestation, but if so, they were likely on polar snow caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles.Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and a queen. She had not been much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. Within the first area of the 20th hundred years, she presided more than a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, THE BEST Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel possessed many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever totally captured her heart and soul. He was the good looking Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that possessed ever lived, the only person in his time who, evening after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than another circus stunt.
