Mr. Vertigo tells the story of a young orphaned boy from St. Louis, Walter Claireborne Rawley, who happens upon a mysterious traveller known only as Master Yehudi. Master Yehudi trains Walter to levitate, and they begin travelling across the United States performing this feat at circussideshows. Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Official website: http://stlouis. ... The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... In America, a sideshow is an extra, secondary production associated with a circus, carnival, fair or other such attraction. ...
Mr. Vertigo was published in 1994, and is considered one of Paul Auster's definitive works of fiction. Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American writer. ...
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