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An extraordinary booklet. ONan is amazing in his handling of the large quantity of facts, gossips and legends that have built up around this fireplace. ?USA TodayIt was a midsummer evening, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the top top caught fireplace. The tent have been waterproofed with an assortment of paraffin and gas; in a few moments it was getting rid of out of control. More than 8,000 people were stuck inside, and the ensuing devastation would eventually take 167 lives.Stewart ONan brings all his narrative gift items to bear on this gripping profile of the great Hartford circus fireplace of 1944. Pulling on interviews with hundreds of survivors, ONan skillfully re-creates the horrific occurrences and illuminates the subconscious oddities of individuals patterns under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous work to maneuver family pets out of hazard; the hero who tossed a large number of children to basic safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and remarkably moving, The Circus Hearth is history at its most engaging.A profound keeping in mind of the fireplace, its patients, its survivors, and its legacy. ?The Boston Globe[ONans nonfiction] is really as achieved as his fiction as gripping as any thriller. ?The Seattle Times
