Rumors of the Turning Wheel

by Anne Halley

The title of this powerful collection refers to the wheel of fortune. In a time long before television game shows, a wood and wire crank-driven mechanism would be set up and turned by hand at fairs and carnivals, next to the puppet-show booth, the pot and pan vendors, and the horse-drawn carousel. Country folk and children watched to see where the turning wheel would stop and if their folded paper "chance" might reveal the lucky number that won a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494006
• ISBN13: 9781558494008
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"