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It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city. Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his career. In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American circus. Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above the dangerous world; and most endangered if performing above a net. With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension combines jaw-dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari.
 
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March 2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0786262621Title: Ascension
Author(s): Steven Galloway
ISBN: 0-7862-6262-1 / 978-0-7862-6262-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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August 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0786712082Title: Ascension: A Novel
Author(s): Steven Galloway
ISBN: 0-7867-1208-2 / 978-0-7867-1208-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
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March 2003 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0676974619Title: Ascension
Author(s): Steven Galloway
ISBN: 0-676-97461-9 / 978-0-676-97461-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf Canada
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Paperback Editions

February 2010 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 184354752XTitle: Ascension
Author(s): Steven Galloway
ISBN: 1-84354-752-X / 9781843547525 (UK edition)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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January 2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0676974600Title: Ascension
Author(s): Steven Galloway
ISBN: 0-676-97460-0 / 978-0-676-97460-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Knopf Canada
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January 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001V8D7YGTitle: Ascension : A Novel
Author(s): Steven Galloway
Publisher: Avalon
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2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1877008834Title: Ascension
Author(s): Galloway Steven
ISBN: 1-877008-83-4 / 9781877008832 (Australia edition)
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January 2003 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B00227LL5CTitle: Ascension
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